Are Health Cooperatives the Future of Health Care?

WASHINGTON, October 5 -- With health cooperatives as an alternative to the public option in Senator Baucus' health bill -- slated for a final vote this week -- Hudson Institute is convening a panel to examine this topic.

Group health cooperatives have played a small but unheralded role in the American health care system. How do they work? Can they increase choice and competition, as well as control costs?

Please join us for lunch, as we discuss these issues.

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.