THE CO-OP COP OUT

CATO@LIBERTY ^ | 6/12/2009 | Michael D. Tanner

[Kimberly GG]

"Faced with rising opposition to a so-called “public option” in health care reform, some Democrats are floating the idea of establishing health insurance “co-operatives” as an alternative. Opponents of a government takeover of the health care system should not be fooled.

A “co-op” can be defined as a business owned and controlled by its workers and the people who use its services, in this case presumably the people whom it insures. In that sense, government provision of some sort of legal framework or seed money to help establish health insurance co-ops seems relatively harmless but also relatively pointless. The U.S. already has some 1,300 insurance companies. Adding a few more would accomplish…what?"....

[Kimberly GG]

"And there’s the rub. Supporters of government-run health care have no intention of letting the co-ops be independent enterprises. In fact, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) makes it clear, for example, that the co-op’s officers and directors would be appointed by the president and Congress. He insists that there be a single national co-op. And Congress would set the rules under which it operates. As Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) says, “It’s got to be written in a way that accomplishes the objectives of a public option.”

If a “co-op” is run by the federal government under rules imposed by the federal government with funding provided by the federal government, that is government-run health insurance by another name."

[Kimberly GG]

Posting this dated article as FOX news is announcing that Obama may settle for NO Public Option in exchange for “CoOps”

[Man50D]

The proposed co-op is another form of government run health care. Reject Health Care Cooperatives -- Trojan Horse for the Public Option

[savedbygrace]

Co-op instead of Public Option -

A Distinction without a Difference

[Kimberly GG]

And how do we prevent the general public, those who have been anti-reform, from thinking this is a GOOD thing???

[Louis Foxwell]

And how do we prevent the general public, those who have been anti-reform, from thinking this is a GOOD thing???

Easy, clarify that the co-op is a national business run out of the White House.

[givemELL]

Housing projects for the ‘poor’ end up as ghettos. Govt. controlled, by direct or indirect means, co-ops will result in equivalent ‘medical ghettos’ too. The idea is to get 90% of medical specialists out of private practice and only some of them, into co-ops. Tens of thousands of older MDs are part-time...all of them will just disappear.

[rawhide]

If a “co-op” is run by the federal government under rules imposed by the federal government with funding provided by the federal government, that is government-run health insurance by another name."

So true. Kill the bill!!!

[Man50D]

And how do we prevent the general public, those who have been anti-reform, from thinking this is a GOOD thing???

The same way we have built an increasingly strong grassroots effort to oppose all these socialists pieces of legislation. Inform people by spreading the word and contact politicians constantly to let them know we strongly oppose co-ops! All this legislation needs to be scrapped!

[Right Wing Assault]

Our new mantra: “No government controlled national co-op!”

[The Wizard]

JUST KILL THE BILL