Sam, I am putting together a little event at Hat Factory within a couple of weeks to look into this further. We'll use your wiki work as a base and go further in depth.
Thanks, Dave D On 3/8/07, Samuel Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
