No. Health purchasing cooperatives are purely voluntary. Subtitle D is intended to create special benefits for cooperatives that meet the standards in the bill. Congress does not intend that these provisions in any way affect the legal status or rights of purchasing cooperatives, employer coalitions, multiemployer plans, MEWA's, association plans, or other similar arrangements that do not meet the standards of this subtitle. The statute clearly states this intent.
Nancy Kassebaum: “No. Health purchasing cooperatives are purely voluntary. Subtitle D is intended to create special benefits for…”
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Discussing the nature and legal implications of health purchasing cooperatives.
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