Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
> Something that I've talked about for years is the possibility of having 
> health cooperatives as a means of getting insurance.  Because they are 
> non-profit and member-owned, YOU (collectively) would decide what (and who?) 
> the insurance should cover.  Yes, these are getting a little bit of 
> attention lately.
> 
A coop would have a similar function to a union. I am in Arizona. We are 
8 months *behind* negotiating for a new contract, we may be getting 
close to having to strike, the company tried to gut "everything" 
including health coverage and benefits, and, at least one person stated, 
"I have been working here 15 years, and every year I lose something on 
the new contract."

No, coops will *not* work, without someone telling the state what they 
can and can't do to screw with those coops. You can't compete 
effectively against someone else, if the deck is stacked against you the 
whole time. Sure, *eventually* you might win, but we are up against 
companies that actually, often, *own* the agencies responsible for 
setting the prices, based on the real cost of procedures, in the first 
place, and anything that isn't national, can't kick them in the nuts 
when they get uppity.

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