Word: nonprofiteers
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...help control insurance costs. But White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has declined this week to say whether Obama is still fighting for a public health plan over the alternate proposal for a "co-op," which would attempt to insert competition into the marketplace by promoting the formation of nonprofit health entities made up of individuals or small businesses. "We're influencing the process forward," he said on Tuesday when asked if the White House opposed the co-op alternative. "We're hopeful that they'll make progress...
Obama himself, meanwhile, has expanded his own definition of public option to include the nonprofit model, which is not publicly run in the classic sense. In an interview Tuesday, July 28, with TIME, he said that what mattered was how the program would work, not how involved the government would be. "Obviously sort of the legal structure of it is less important than practically how can it operate," the President said. Many Democratic leaders have expressed fear that the co-op idea would have only a marginal impact on controlling private-insurance-company costs...
...Some Obama allies fear that in his eagerness to get a deal - especially one that can attract Republican votes - he is giving away too much. The Senate Finance Committee, for example, is on the verge of a deal that would jettison the public option in favor of nonprofit, consumer-owned health-care co-ops, which would mean far less government involvement than many liberals would like to see. The Finance Committee, whose chairman, Max Baucus of Montana, is working closely with ranking Republican Charles Grassley, appears poised to omit any requirement that employers provide coverage to their workers (though they...
...Other revenue-raising proposals include prohibiting the use of Flexible Spending Account money - tax-free funds withheld by individuals to pay for certain medical expenses - for over-the-counter drugs; imposing taxes on alcohol, sodas and other unhealthy beverages; rescinding the nonprofit status of hospitals that act like for-profit companies and no longer offer charity care; and deriving $100 billion from a windfall tax on insurers based on their U.S. market share. But many of these ideas are controversial and face significant opposition from members and Senators representing areas where local companies or hospitals might be adversely impacted...
...highly controversial idea that Republicans say is tantamount to the socialization of health care, but which many Democrats (including Obama) say is essential for any overhaul of the system. The Senate Finance Committee's bill takes a middle-of-the-road approach, including a co-op plan, essentially a nonprofit version of a government plan that some critics say couldn't possibly compete effectively the way a public option could. The legislation includes provisions for a public plan, but such an approach would be triggered only if the co-op plan doesn't prove to work in certain states...