Co-Op Option Offers Compromise In Health Debate
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A new health insurance idea is circulating through the Senate Finance Committee and may appear in its final plan for revamping the nation's health care system. The idea is to stimulate the creation of co-ops where people could go to buy low-cost, high-quality health insurance.
Health co-ops are not a new idea. Two large ones, Group Health in Seattle and HealthPartners in Minneapolis, are more than 50 years old. But the thought that co-ops could ...
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Reading some of the opposition's views here I'm even more amazed than usual at how far conservatives and libertarians will over-exaggerate the "personal choice" argument to defend big insurers and prescription drug companies. A lot of their claims, to me, border on hyperbole.