Health Cooperatives: Health Cooperatives have been proposed in the Senate as an alternative to a proposed government plan or public option. The cooperatives, which would be structured as non-profits and owned by their members, could offer a network of health care providers or contract out for medical services. The concept championed by some Democrats would provide 'seed money' for the cooperatives, which would then be sustained by customer premiums. Read news coverage about insurance cooperatives. Read this Commonwealth Fund history of health cooperatives.

 

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