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Top Ranked Idaho Health Plans

Friday, January 15th, 2010

According to US News and World Reports’ annual rankings of Idaho health insurance plans, Group Health Cooperative is the top plan in the state for 2009-2010.  The report included the top 4 health plans in Idaho as seen below.

  1. Group Health Cooperative
  2. SelectHealth
  3. Group Health Options (Options)
  4. Group Health Options (Alliant)

When compared against the entire country, Group Health Cooperative ranked 76th out of more than 600 commercial health plans that provided data to be included in Report.  An additional 120 health plans did not wish to be included in the report or otherwise did not provide requested data.

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What is a Health Care Cooperative?

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

A health care cooperative is a private, member-owned health plan that would serve states or regions.  The health care co-op that is being proposed by the senate finance committee, would have them governed by elected officials rather than by the Federal Government.

There are currently several health care co-ops in existence around the country, the most well known is probably Seattle based Group Health Insurance Cooperative with roughly 580,000 members.

Republicans like the idea of a co-op because it requires less government involvement.

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