Health-insurance co-op set to start in 2013

If you don’t have health insurance, or you want to buy less expensive health-insurance coverage in the future, you’re sure to be affected by my first piece of news.

A new, nonprofit health insurance co-op is slated to start working in Colorado in 2013. Customers are expected to be able to buy the new insurance from the co-op in 2013; their health-insurance plans will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2014.

The co-op – sponsored by the Denver-based nonprofit Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Foundation – recently received a loan for $69 million to operate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human…