But I think the federal government does have a responsibility to support co-op development by making sure there's a model in place to support education about and awareness of it, and to promote it, even through start-up grants and start-up opportunities. Even though they don't directly control how the health dollars are spent, I think they can be a model and/or good stewards of the co-op model.
On July 27th, 2012. See this statement in context.