In a climate where rational discussion about health care is absolutely impossible, some people are rolling up their sleeves and doing something about it…
The price for use of the co-op’s services ranges from as little as $50 a month for an establishment with a couple of employees to $400 a month for a larger restaurant.
Dr. Dave, who works as a general practitioner and sees other patients, is able to support himself because both his office and apartment are located in rent-stabilized buildings operated by the Lower East Side People’s Mutual Housing Association, a not-for-profit housing group that charges him only $800 a month for rent.
With health care currently a hot-button political issue, Dr. Dave sees this local, not-for-profit health system as a model for how national health care in America could work.
“I’m not against profit,” he says. “I just don’t think you can have a for-profit health system that provides everyone with proper health care. It’s just never going to work.”
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