Are Health Cooperatives a Viable Alternative to a Public Plan?

WASHINGTON, September 30, 2009 -- As the debate over health care reform has escalated, nonprofit health insurance cooperatives have been touted as an alternative to a government-run health insurance option. Group health cooperatives have long been a part of the American health care landscape. What do we know about how they work? Can they achieve the important objectives of health care reform by increasing choice and competition and controlling costs of health care services? Experts in the health cooperative field will discuss and debate these and other questions.

Lunch will be served.

What: Conference on Health Cooperatives: A Viable Alternative to the Public Plan?

Who:

Tevi Troy (moderator), Hudson Visiting Senior Fellow and Former Deputy Secretary of HHS

Jeremiah Norris (introduction), Director of Hudson's Center for Science in Public Policy

Joseph Antos, American Enterprise Institute

Barbara Blaylock, M.D., board-certified internist

Edmund Haislmaier,Heritage Foundation

Robert Rosenberg, M.D., George Washington University, former director of one of the first U.S. health cooperatives

When:

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

12:00 – 2:00 PM

 

Where:

Hudson Institute

1015 15th Street, NW, Sixth Floor

Washington, DC

RSVP: KMarano@hudson.org

For more information, please visit http://www.Hudson.org/healthcoop0909

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CONTACT: Kacie Marano (KMarano@hudson.org) at 202-974-2430.