A Tale Of Two Obamacare Co-Op Insurers: One Standing, One Falling

(By John Daley, Colorado Public Radio and Jeff Cohen, WNPR; via Kaiser Health News)

Thousands of Americans are again searching for health insurance after losing it for 2016. That’s because health cooperatives — large, low-cost insurers set up as part of Obamacare — are folding in a dozen states.

The failure of Colorado’s co-op has hit Rick and Letha Heitman hard. They are currently customers of the Colorado HealthOP, which is closing up shop at the end of the year. The couple, who own a contracting business, say the co-op proved to be a life-saver when Rick was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer last spring.

“I owe them for taking care of me. They helped me at a time when I needed it a lot,” he says. Read more…

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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