K-k-k-kill the C-C-C-Co-op Option

I mean really.

The whole talk of creating these co-ops, for health care, instead of giving us what we really need and what will really work—a government option for health insurance---is absurd.

There are so many reasons why co-ops aren’t the answer and won’t truly work.

For one, it would take millions, if not billions of dollars to create them all.

Where, exactly, is that going to come from? It won’t be private money.

Second, there is no way enough co-ops would or could be created to cover all Americans. Many millions of rural people would end up with the same lack of coverage the country is experiencing now. Even places like rural Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska would no doubt end up without coverage, let alone the more isolated parts of the country like Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Montana.

Forget it. It’s insane. It’s a total non-starter.

So let’s be done with this whole notion.

I think there is a high likelihood that the conversation of health insurance co-ops may have been started by insurance companies so they could maintain their control of the market.

Unless the federal government steps in and gives a true nationwide option of health care insurance for all Americans, the insurance corporations will maintain their stranglehold on health insurance in the US—and on the sharp increases they’ve been foisting on us for decades.

Link to story:
http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/prairie-health-care-companion/index.html?th&emc=th