I don;t think it's a tall order. It's a vital needed service, IMHO. I was wondering when this would come up in Coworkign circles. I've been talking with some other independent entreprenuers about the prospect of creating a cooperative-governed Health Care Union for people in the US. I have some research on existing Health care Union models. It was on my ToDo list to create launch a wiki site to explore this some more, too.
Coworking as movement in the US maybe does not yet have the numbers to create a Health Care Union. But then again, maybe the idea would take off and grow exponentially among people interested. It's worth exploring. It's probably generally optimal to have a Cooperative-based health care union be local or regional based. But I wonder if, in this day and age of virtual connection, whether it can also be network-based, local to a network of people? It would be awesome to have a system that a network of people could easily adopt for starting up their own health care union, and maybe aligning it/connecting it with a federation of health care unions for coworking indepenedents. Either way, I'll be researching this at http://socialsynergyweb.net/cgi-bin/wiki/HealthCareUnion/FrontPage But, if Coworking folks are also interested in this, I'll be sure to also create it simultaneously into the Coworking wiki, too. On 3/7/07, coworking group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Tues, Mar 6 2007 7:18am From: "Chris Messina" Can we maybe create a page on the wiki to start documenting resources, ideas and the like? I don't know that we'll find a one-solution that fits all, but starting with educating ourselves would be great. http://wiki.coworking.info/Healthcare I also agree that geography is an issue to consider -- so it might also help to document what people have done in different places... Where the local goverment helps out, etc -- perhaps as a namespaced extension: CoworkingBrooklynHealthcare or something. In the long term, it'd be ideal if coworking community members were given at least three solid choices for affordable care -- and that, together, we could lower the rates for everyone by harnessing our collective purchasing power. It's a tall order, but no one seems to be likely to do it for us. Chris Sam Rose Social Synergy Tel: +1-517-699-5594 Cel: +1-517-242-7783 AIM: Str9960 Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samrose skype: samuelrose email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://socialsynergyweb.com http://socialsynergy.typepad.com http://socialsynergyweb.net/cgi-bin/wiki/FrontPage Related Sites/Blogs/Projects: http://p2pfoundation.net http://blog.p2pfoundation.net http://www.cooperationcommons.com/cooperation-commons http://smartmobs.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
