Argument: Health insurance co-ops cannot scale as quickly as public insurance

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Jacob Hacker, a famous political science professor and health care expert at the University of California: “The history of cooperative is that it’s very hard to set these things up, and while we’re trying to set them up, there’s not going to be accountability and pressure [on private insurers]. They would be weakest when they’re most needed — at the outset.”[1]