www.peoplespolicyproject.org
gosh its almost like its more profitable to not be a souless corporate vampire and people do really well when they can have a hand in their own interests.Finland's largest private sector employer is a consumer cooperative.
Inside the Walmart of Finland
Finland's largest private sector employer is a consumer cooperative.
Another possibility is that maybe the actual reason is that these top members are actually replacable, and if one of them denies the 1M instead of 2,3,4 M bonus, there are other equally capable people that can do the same service.
They're not illegal in the US that I know of but forms of them may be, let's just say, squashed or pushed out, when attempted - especially utilities. A city near me has a utility coop that's existed since before electricity. Credit unions are consumers coops, I know of housing coops, food and grocery and child care/preschools but the only healthcare ones I know of are HMO's. Which are still predatory insurance companies, no matter what. While not exactly a coop, I would love to see public banks make a comeback in the US. We currently only have one left that I know of.
bnd.nd.gov
www.healthinsurance.org
I've been reading about this:
Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP)? | healthinsurance.org
Created by the Affordable Care Act, the CO-OP program was designed to help create nonprofit, member-controlled health insurance plans that would offer ACA-compliant policies in the individual and small business markets.
Why did the $10 billion in grants become $6 billion in loans?
Maybe shit like this?I've been reading about this:
Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP)? | healthinsurance.org
Created by the Affordable Care Act, the CO-OP program was designed to help create nonprofit, member-controlled health insurance plans that would offer ACA-compliant policies in the individual and small business markets.
Why did the $10 billion in grants become $6 billion in loans?
www.forbes.com
It seemed like the Trump administration really went after these programs, but some if it started under Obama)
www.healthinsurance.org
So it's more because it started under Obama, not because it's, yanno ripping people off.Here's a lot more detail about the closures
CO-OP health plans: patients’ interests first
For 2025, only three of the original 23 CO-OPs are still operational, with coverage available in Maine, Wisconsin, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. Most of the original CO-OPs failed for a variety of reasons, including premiums that were too low and the unexpected loss of federal funding that was...
Well, there are going to be bad actors.
www.healthsystemtracker.org
I don't remember any of this. But that doesn't mean anything. I don't think a lot of people do.
people have better memories than they think they do. Its hard to live in such a state of denial if you're simply forgetful. People pay top dollar and a pound of flesh for some good nepenthe. Forgetfulness can be priceless to most humans.
I know for a fact that I was not very wired into things during the time period when this was all first discussed for a variety of complicated reasons. I always assumed I didn't miss much but perhaps I wrong. This was the age of me trying to solve everything by being out in nature.
Social media has never been about truth. It's always only ever been about clicks. The difference between a fun creative writing project and a rabbit hole that consumes lives and drives madness is largely a matter of how one processes perspective and responds to addiction and anxiety. The fake nature videos, the chicanery has always been there. It could be considered an evolutionary imperitive to learn to recognize marketing tactics for what they are.
I would not look to any social media to explain the Middle East. Or any middle or east for that matter, that's just not its purpose. If you want to see how the events of right now came about you will need to go back over a century. Prior to that, these places had been under Ottoman rule for the better part of 500 years.
