Health Care Reform - Health Co-ops

In the Commonwealth Fund Blog's inaugural post, Commonwealth Fund President Karen Davis writes on the possible impact health insurance cooperatives may have on reform as well as the history of American cooperative health care. The current policy discussion is fraught with variations of how reform will actually take shape and one proposal in play is the one laid out by Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND). The Senate Finance Committee's soon-to-be-released reform bill is considering Conrad's idea for reforming the insurance market by developing and implementing regional- or state-based non-profit health insurance co-ops rather than a public insurance option. Find the article here.