Group Health stands by rules limiting who can vote on Kaiser deal

Officials at Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative said they’re sticking to plans that prevent most of the organization’s 600,000 members from voting on a proposed acquisition by California’s Kaiser Permanente.

Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative says it won’t budge on plans that exclude nearly 95 percent of its members from voting on a proposed acquisition by California’s Kaiser Permanente.

Officials with the co-op said this week they are upholding a long-standing tradition by leaving the key decision to about 27,000 members who registered to vote before the deal with Kaiser Permanente was announced last week. That’s about 4.5 percent of the plan’s 600,000 members in Washington and North Idaho.
“Our trustees and the founders were not supportive of ‘one issue voters’ or special interest groups who had not already made the commitment to take part in the cooperative process,” Susan Byington, chair of the Group Health Cooperative Board, said in a statement. For the full article click here 

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