General Information

The Restaurant Worker Health Care Cooperative (RWHCC) was created in response to the need for restaurant workers to have direct access to basic medical care at a low and reasonable cost.

Restaurants are families and the owner/ managers want to provide some sort of health services to their loyal and valued worker / employees.

Many workers do not qualify for Medicaid and the economically abusive so-called “health insurance” is no answer at all. Few businesses can afford to pay $1000 per month for so-called “health insurance” for each worker. What’s even worse, with so-called health insurance you have to pay for what might have happened, whether that medical event happens or not. There are no refunds.

RWHCC provides actual medical care. Not any sort of “insurance” scam. The RW cooperative only pays out money when a worker actually needs medical assistance.

A few years ago, David J. Ores, MD met with several area restaurant owners and RWHCC was created.

The member restaurants (the owners) contribute monthly “dues” of a few hundred dollars and this creates a common fund of money. These funds are used to pay for any worker who visits the office for any medical need or problem. No profits are made. No dividends are paid out. The mission statement is not to make as much money each quarter as possible. The mission statement is to help as many restaurant workers as possible for the least amount of cost.

A health care co-op can do more for much less because:

1. There are no profits generated.
2. The co-op only pays money for workers who actually need medical care – not for what might have happened, but didn’t.
3. We pay out no dividends to stock holders. We have no stock holders.
4. We will gradually establish preventative care and find illnesses earlier and prevent health problems wherever possible.

More Information

• For Workers and Employees:  How to Use RWHCC
• RWHCC on Facebook