n March 14, 1946, Group Health Cooperative attorney Jack Cluck meets William “Sandy” MacColl, M.D., pediatrician with the Medical Security Clinic, at an East Side Forum on health care reform. The two health care visionaries hit it off and begin formulating a merger of their organizations, which will spur development of the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound.
Jack Cluck (d. 1983) was a longtime leader in the cooperative movement who served as corporate counsel for the incorporation of Group Health in December 1945. Sandy MacColl (d. 1989) was a pediatrician with the older Medical Security Clinic, with offices in downtown Seattle and a small hospital, St. Luke’s, on Capitol Hill. After the forum in Kirkland’s old Lake Washington High School, the two men retired to have a beer and discuss how their organizations might join forces.
The Medical Security Clinic was established in 1938 to offer prepaid care to workers. It also evolved into one of the state’s first group practices, in which physicians jointly owned and managed both a small clinic in Seattle’s Securities Building and St. Luke’s Hospital on Capitol Hill.
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