Health Reform Update: Good-Bye Public Option, Hello Co-Ops - Health Blog - WSJ

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By Jacob Goldstein - Instead of a new government plan, we may wind up seeing private, non-profit insurance co-operatives that are owned by their members. This idea does have the ring of compromise — it could provide competition for private insurers, as many Democrats want, without creating a new government insurance program, which many Republicans oppose. The co-op idea was the “main option in play” in Senate Finance back in June, the WSJ noted, and we haven’t heard anything since then to suggest that’s change. (But we still haven’t seen a bill from Senate Finance, so nothing’s certain.) Read More