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Robert Ottenhoff

A Disappointing Debate

Posted on October 13th, 2009, in these categories: Health Care | Public Policy

I’ve been disappointed in the tone of the public debate on health care reform. Rather than have a reasoned discussion about different approaches to this complicated and difficult issue, we seem to be bombing each other with slogans and sound bites.
Sunday’s Washington Post has a front-page story that says, "The nation’s political discourse seems [...]

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More Questions about Nonprofit Health Care Cooperatives

Posted on September 25th, 2009, in these categories: Health Care | Public Policy

I’m still trying to decide how health care cooperatives work and whether they can reach the scope and scale that our health care system needs to introduce some of the reforms that are being discussed.
Last week I interviewed Steve Delfin, executive director of the National Credit Union Foundation, who told me about how credit unions [...]

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More on the Nonprofit Cooperative Option for Health Care

Posted on September 18th, 2009, in these categories: Health Care | Public Policy

Nonprofit medical cooperatives still seem to be in the picture as an alternative to the so-called public option as part of the medical reforms being discussed.
In my last blog on this issue, I mentioned there are very few co-ops in the GuideStar database, and I expressed some doubts about the capabilities and scalability of creating [...]

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