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The Promise and the Power of Social Cooperatives

NonProfit Quarterly

The SABSA healthcare cooperative is one of over 11,000 enterprises in the province of Quebec’s distinctive social economy. “We We can both provide healthcare and do substance testing,” explained SABSA clinical nurse Marie-Odyle Massé to NPQ. “We The provincial government agreed to help underwrite worker salaries.

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Is Your Health Insurer Breaking the Law?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: AntonioGuillem on istock.com Despite hundreds of state laws meant to protect health insurance consumers—patients, in other words—from denials of legitimate claims for coverage, health insurers are routinely flouting these laws and illegally denying coverage in even life-threatening situations.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. 4 In practice, thats proven difficulta systematic review of American healthcare data done in 2011 revealed high rates of re-identification, raising ethical concerns. 5 This brings forth other pressing questions, such as: How are AI datasets acquired in the first place?

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Study: Nonprofits Hospitals Worth 10X of Tax Foregone

The NonProfit Times

The hospital cost reports are not audited financial reports, but are filed by hospitals with the federal government. In the absence of a tax exemption for charitable hospitals, certain organizations could continue to be exempted for other reasons, according to the report’s authors.

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California Embraces Employee Ownership: Will Other States Follow?

NonProfit Quarterly

Leading co-op and labor organizations in the coalition include A Slice of New York , a Silicon Valley-based employee-owned pizza restaurant; the California Center for Cooperative Development ; Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West ; and the Sustainable Economies Law Center , based in Oakland, California.

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The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking

NonProfit Quarterly

It has been very common for governments to request AI models that can identify fraud in a public benefits systemfor instance, in the applications they receive for childcare benefits or unemployment benefits. Weve seen algorithms perform this way in the healthcare space, for instance. And we see that.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. Nonprofits are a feature of tax law and corporate governance laws.