Co-ops, Exchanges, Gateways, and The Need For A Public Plan

OurFuture.org by Jonathan Walker | Aug. 17, 2009 (Special Report)

Despite efforts to negotiate lower premiums, cooperatives have only been able to offer premiums that are comparable to those in the general small group market. The cooperatives we reviewed typically did not obtain overall premium reductions because (1) their market share provided insufficient leverage, (2) they could not produce administrative savings for insurers. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 18, 2009

Walker gives a good set of sources that tend to document that the false alternatives to a public option are failure prone.

competition drove most of the health insurance co-ops out of business or forced them to abandon the co-op structure. While Group Health Cooperative provides a good quality ... More »

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    The health care reform compromise that centrist Democrats and several Republicans have indicated they'd support has shown an inability to effectively lower premiums for ...
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