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Health stories in the news – July 7th

New York Times profiles Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative
Opponents to a public health insurance plan are proposing private-sector insurance cooperatives as an alternative, and they are pointing to Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative as an example of what such cooperatives can accomplish, writes New York Times reporter Kevin Sack in today’s issue of the paper.
Group Health has [...]

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Sen. Ron Wyden

Health reform debate in the papers

Seattle Times comes out for public-health insurance option
“Creation of a public-health-insurance option is central to the health-care reform debate underway in Congress,” the Seattle Times editors write in today’s issue. “Consumers need a competitive choice that is affordable, portable and fairly priced.”
To learn more:

Read the Seattle Times editorial: Include a public-health insurance option.
The Kaiser Family [...]

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Checking In With Group Health Cooperative’s Pam MacEwan

Checking In With Group Health Cooperative’s Pam MacEwan

By Jenny Gold of Kaiser Health News
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., recently introduced the idea of non-profit insurance cooperatives as an alternative to a government-sponsored public insurance option in Democratic proposals to overhaul the nation’s health care system.
Many Republicans and health insurers oppose the idea of a government-run approach, charging that it will be an unfair [...]

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