Also: correction, will research and develop Health Care Cooperative: http://socialsynergyweb.net/cgi-bin/wiki/HealthCareCoop/FrontPage >
On Mar 7, 9:56 pm, "Samuel Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don;t think it's a tall order. It's a vital needed service, IMHO. > > I was wondering when this would come up in Coworkign circles. I've > been talking with some other independent entreprenuers about the > prospect of creating a cooperative-governed Health Care Union for > people in the US. I have some research on existing Health care Union > models. It was on my ToDo list to create launch a wiki site to explore > this some more, too. > > Coworking as movement in the US maybe does not yet have the numbers to > create a Health Care Union. But then again, maybe the idea would take > off and grow exponentially among people interested. It's worth > exploring. > > It's probably generally optimal to have a Cooperative-based health > care union be local or regional based. But I wonder if, in this day > and age of virtual connection, whether it can also be network-based, > local to a network of people? > > It would be awesome to have a system that a network of people could > easily adopt for starting up their own health care union, and maybe > aligning it/connecting it with a federation of health care unions for > coworking indepenedents. > > Either way, I'll be researching this > athttp://socialsynergyweb.net/cgi-bin/wiki/HealthCareUnion/FrontPage > > But, if Coworking folks are also interested in this, I'll be sure to > also create it simultaneously into the Coworking wiki, too. > > On 3/7/07, coworking group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Tues, Mar 6 2007 7:18am > From: "Chris Messina" > > Can we maybe create a page on the wiki to start documenting > resources, > ideas and the like? I don't know that we'll find a one-solution > that > fits all, but starting with educating ourselves would be great. > > http://wiki.coworking.info/Healthcare > > I also agree that geography is an issue to consider -- so it might > also help to document what people have done in different places... > Where the local goverment helps out, etc -- perhaps as a > namespaced > extension: CoworkingBrooklynHealthcare or something. > > In the long term, it'd be ideal if coworking community members > were > given at least three solid choices for affordable care -- and > that, > together, we could lower the rates for everyone by harnessing our > collective purchasing power. > > It's a tall order, but no one seems to be likely to do it for us. > > Chris > > Sam Rose > Social Synergy > Tel: +1-517-699-5594 > Cel: +1-517-242-7783 > AIM: Str9960 > Linkedin Profile:https://www.linkedin.com/in/samrose > skype: samuelrose > email: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]://socialsynergyweb.comhttp://socialsynergy.typepad.comhttp://socialsynergyweb.net/cgi-bin/wiki/FrontPage > > Related Sites/Blogs/Projects: > > http://p2pfoundation.nethttp://blog.p2pfoundation.nethttp://www.cooperationcommons.com/cooperation-commonshttp://smartmobs.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
