Claims And Issues: Coop Alternative to Public Health Insurance Competition? PART ONE.

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August 07, 2009

United Agricultural Benefit Trust, which is a nonprofit health cooperative with almost 15,000 members from California and Arizona, is being touted by some as a viable alternative to a national Public Health Insurance option. Here are some of the features of that coop in this article by W.J. Hennigan and Kate Linthicum, "Healthcare: Roads to Reform/United Agricultural Benefit Trust Spotlighted as Model for Healthcare Cooperatives" (Los Angeles Times Online, Thursday, August 6, 2009).

More to come outlining the features of health cooperatives. This is an important topic and merits a closer look. In the interim, a comparison of the options of Public Health Insurance and health cooperatives, along with the best explanation I have read to date of what a Public Health Insurance Option entails, is provided by Alec MacGillis in "Democrats Wrestle Over Chances of a Public Option" (Washington Post Online, Thursday, August 6, 2009), republished online on Friday, August 7, 2009 under the headline, "Democrats Weigh the Calculus of Public Insurance."

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