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Colo. SB 11-168 admits that authoritarian “co-op” will kill jobs
Colorado SB 11-168 (text), which would create a tax-funded authoritarian health care cooperate that unfairly competes with insurance companies, admits that it will put people out of jobs. Section 10-16-1107 (yeah, really) reads: The [Board of Directors] shall design the … Continue reading
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Colorado SB 11-168: The health care Authority will enforce your “cooperation”
Colorado’s health care authoritarians are back with their version of single payer medicine. No, it’s a “public option. No, it’s a “health care cooperative.” If this idea is so good, then they should start their own co-op w/o government force, & let people join & fund at will. Continue reading
The AMA & biased legislation vs. health care mutual aid societies
Mary Ruwart nicely summarizes how the American Medical Association and legislation biased toward insurance companies crowded out health care mutual aid societies. Today their equivalents are health care cooperatives. The following is from The Liberator Online, June 24, 2010: QUESTION: … Continue reading
Government health co-op: public plan in disguise?
Have Democrat politicians backed away from pushing a government run insurance plan, a.ka., the “public plan” or “public option”? They are now backing a tax-subsidized “co-op.” There are some reasons to be suspicious. If you like podcasts, listen to Co-ops … Continue reading
Danger of government-backed health care co-ops
From the Wall Street Journal: The details of the Senate Finance Committee’s hush-hush health talks aren’t fully known, but leaks suggest that one all-but-certain highlight will be new federally created health “cooperatives” to compete against private insurers. … the Senate … Continue reading
Health care cooperatives already exist
When politicians talk about “cooperatives,” they mean you cooperate, or else. Supporters of the “public insurance option,” that is, government-run insurance that competes with commercial insurers sense opposition: People realize it’s unfair competition. You know, like playing basketball against a … Continue reading