On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:45 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 9:16 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > If they're really serious about this stuff, > > > > --why should the "window of opportunity" not stay opened? > > > >
Actually I am now insured through a consumer health insurance company, Group Health. Legally it is consumer owned. We get to elect the board of directors. It was founded in the 50s by lefties. But unfortunately a combination of market pressure and Doctor conservatism has meant that group health has been conservative and in many ways like normal insurance companies. Because most members don't pay attention , Union supported slates have tended to lose. Group health is one of the medical groups that has tried to break the nurses union. Group health bought my old insurance company and shut it down, and in the end I was left with Group health as my only alternative to being uninsured or just having catastrophic coverage. I won't say group health is worse on everything. They genuinely do a good job on preventative care, the best of any coverage I've ever had. But in every other respect they are indistnguishable or worse than conventional health insurers. There is just a limit to how good a co-op can be in the context of a system that is largely for-profit. Incidentally. love for insurance co-ops by centrist Democrats in nothing new. Remember when Hillary made the Clinton proposal? A lot it was based on studies of Group Health, which was touted as the model of care which all insurers would follow. -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com
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