Compromise Co-Op Proposal Won't Lower Costs, Government Study Showed

The health care reform compromise that centrist Democrats and several Republicans have indicated they'd support has shown an inability to effectively lower premiums for consumers, a newly resurfaced government study shows. Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 17, 2009

Stein adds in the GAO report to the health care discussion. He pops the balloons of the hot air specialists proposing co-ops.

Co-ops are typically full of chicken po-ops. They are a distraction, an ineffective waste of time and money.

The U.S. General Accounting Office produced a report on cooperatives in March 2000 that was mostly sour on the idea. Using five different co-ops as examples, the study ... More »

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