One of the joys of living in the Washington area is that while watching the news on television, we get to see the strangest advertisements urging Congress to do such-and-such sponsored by some supposedly high-minded, publicly spirited organization. I always think to myself, who are these people and where is their money coming from? [...]
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There’s an interesting battle going on in local Washington, D.C., politics that could have national implications. 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. 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. 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. This week’s debate about the Obama administration’s health plan has focused on a "nonprofit co-op" alternative to a government-owned insurance plan. |
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