Comment & Debate
Glen Stream, an AAFP board member and a family physician in Spokane, Wash., said: “I think the challenges [co-ops] could be monumental. I think their success is far from assured.”
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele: “‘health insurance reform’ or ‘health care reform,’ ‘co-ops’ or ‘public option;’ no matter what he calls it, no matter how he tries to dress it up, he can’t escape the fact that his government-run health care plan would increase costs, increase taxes, increase the deficit and reduce health care choice and quality.”[1]