Scott Harrington: Health Co-ops: Slow Road to Government Care - WSJ.com: "There are hints that the Obama administration and Democratic congressional leadership might be willing to negotiate on the inclusion of a government health insurer as part of health-care reform. The most likely alternative proposal, which has been discussed by the Senate Finance Committee, is to establish some system of consumer cooperatives or 'co-ops.'
While details are sketchy, the basic idea is to subsidize the creation of nonprofit health insurers on a state or regional basis. These supposedly would be run independent of the government and compete with traditional private health-insurance plans.
These government-authorized co-ops would serve no useful purpose. And they would risk the same adverse consequences as a public plan."
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