and the healthcare industry trunk around. According to Wall Street Journal , it has hired more than 350 former government staff and members of Congress to lobby on their behalf. Not to mention political advertisements and similar local campaigns were on full tilt
From what we can tell, one of the first victims perhaps the idea of health insurance cooperatives -. Which until now had seemed a plausible compromise.
Why? Apparently they painfully take a long time to form. How long? Decades . Obama, 47, would probably be in his 70s before cooperatives could take root and competing with the private sector.
In an interview with Bloomberg , Paul Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center Health Solutions called the cooperative health insurance a "concept clean enough" ... if we had 25 years "were not looking down the barrel of a shotgun on health costs. "Ouch.
is not the only one who thinks so. Michael Kreidler, the Commissioner of Insurance of Washington, agreed. He also noted that the Health Group based in Seattle, the oldest of care co-op health in the country, did not offer a significant discount on their premiums 0,000 members.
Senator Kent Conrad introduced the ability of cooperatives as an alternative to a public option, that was a point with Republicans and even some Democrats collage. He envisioned nonprofit statewide or regional collectively owned by its members, who can negotiate with doctors and local hospitals. a national council would to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies for local affiliates.
in many ways, the tug of war will be constant until the deadline in August will not only between one side or the other it will be between realism and idealism.
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