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Omaha Steve

(99,653 posts) Sat Mar 30, 2013, 04:29 PM Mar 2013

Cooperative is entering Nebraska, Iowa health care markets

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Steve Jordon

A new nonprofit health insurance cooperative can now sell coverage in Iowa and will soon have the same authority in Nebraska.

CoOportunity Health, based in Des Moines, plans to sell policies in the two states’ new health care marketplaces, formerly called insurance exchanges, under the federal Affordable Care Act, as well as in the private health insurance market.

Under the federal health care act, the cooperative received a $112 million loan, to be repaid within five years, for startup costs and initial capital.

Cliff Gold, chief operating officer, said the State of Iowa issued CoOportunity a certificate to begin selling coverage Oct. 1 that would take effect Jan. 1. Open enrollment for the new marketplaces will continue through March 31, 2014.

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Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20130330/LIVEWELL26/703309975#cooperative-is-entering-nebraska-iowa-health-care-markets

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Cooperative is entering Nebraska, Iowa health care markets (Original Post) Omaha Steve Mar 2013 OP

please come to Oklahoma! OKNancy Mar 2013 #1

Cliff Gold, a former senior executive with Blue Cross Blue Shield in Iowa? antigop Mar 2013 #2

Non profit health insurance options will prevail. annabanana Mar 2013 #3

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)

1. please come to Oklahoma!

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Sat Mar 30, 2013, 05:15 PM

Mar 2013

antigop

(12,778 posts)

2. Cliff Gold, a former senior executive with Blue Cross Blue Shield in Iowa?

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 05:26 PM

Mar 2013

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120222/MONEY/702229893

Organizers of Midwest Members Health are David Lyons, former Iowa insurance commissioner and CEO of the Iowa Institute in Des Moines; Cliff Gold, a former senior executive with Blue Cross Blue Shield in Iowa and CEO of Cliff's Edge Strategies; and Stephen Ringlee of Ames, Iowa, a venture capitalist.

Gold said Tuesday that the plan is to begin selling insurance by October 2013 and begin coverage by Jan. 1, 2014, using the medical provider network of Midlands Choice of Omaha, which is owned by hospitals in Nebraska and Iowa. The cooperative will have its headquarters in the Des Moines area and a presence in Omaha, he said, and employ between 20 and 50 people by the time it begins coverage.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

3. Non profit health insurance options will prevail.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2013, 06:16 PM

Mar 2013

It will take some of the sting out of the "no public option" problem

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