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Collected Resources on the Coop Health Care Discussion

Submitted by mhand on September 18, 2009 |


Health care affects every credit union member and business. The issue of reform is so relevant to the employee experience and a credit union’s bottom line that credit unions should take note.

Credit Unions Rising has pulled together a collection of health care reform references as well as opened a new topic on this site. It’s a place for credit union professionals to engage in the debate on our future health care system and ways CU’s can help limit the current cycle of soaring healthcare costs.

Few recent political issues have generated as much intense public discussion as health-care reform. Every American uses health care. Most have an opinion about change.

Historically, cooperatives have been agents of change. Both state and federal legislatures have authorized cooperatives to address needs not being met by the private sector and too controversial for a government-managed solution. Cooperatives are market facing and therefore must be productive to survive. But they also embody the equalitarian spirit of availability for all whatever one’s economic circumstance. Should credit unions, as cooperative representatives, be in this debate?

 

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