Headquartered in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota, HealthPartners is one of the nation's largest co-ops.
The game will also support two split-screen co-ops if that's how you want to roll.
This change is coming, led by energy co-ops like Great River Energy in Minnesota.
Some of those miners who do not find re-employment will probably join small local mining co-ops.
The success of CO-OPs will depend on consumer confidence, affordability, and health care plan benefits.
If additional funds are available, there may be multiple CO-OPs financed in any given state.
The latest alternative would be a system of non-profit health insurance cooperatives modeled after rural agriculture co-ops.
Co-ops typically raise waste pickers' take by 20%, but Da Rocha wants even more for his members.
They could also pay to bring in managerial expertise, and successful co-ops could take over struggling ones.
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Organic foods, once specialty items found in co-ops and health food stores, have long since entered the mainstream.
The town of about 1, 200 residents has two churches and two lobster co-ops.
In a mad rush for subsidies, farm co-ops, VeraSun and other outfits erected a few too many ethanol plants.
Existing home sales entail completed sales of single-family homes, condos, townhomes and co-ops.
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For decades, both right and left ignored co-ops (though both Gordon Brown and David Cameron have recently endorsed the ideal).
Likewise, with a small initial consumer base, CO-OPs may struggle to obtain a large network of providers or remain financially sustainable.
If successful in creation and sustainability, CO-OPs will differ from typical individual and small business insurance providers in two significant ways.
Mr Sasono, however, believes that co-ops can still fulfil their original promise.
Existing-home sales, or completed residential real estate transactions for properties including single-family homes, townhouses, condos and co-ops, showed a renewed decline last month.
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We did not include co-ops (which may have pushed some of the fancier ZIP codes near Central Park in Manhattan lower on our list).
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However, the job of the Advisory Board ends there, as there are presently no guidelines on how CO-OPs will be evaluated, monitored or controlled.
The Campanile, like other posh co-ops in New York, will only take 100% cold hard cash for the privilege of owning shares in the building.
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James Dorn, a currency expert at the Cato Institute, is skeptical that the Maharishi's plan for saving the world through co-ops and raams will work.
Others have warned that regulating health co-ops would create new bureaucracy.
He is promoting agro-industrial co-ops, to increase rural employment and income.
By regulation, CO-OPs should reflect private, non-profit insurance company models.
Completed sales of existing homes, including single-family houses, condos and co-ops, ticked down to a seasonally adjusted rate of 4.92 million sales per year in March.
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Moreover, with nothing stopping these students from forming their own virtual and in-person clubs, study groups, co-ops, and all the other aspects of traditional student life.
Because CO-OPs are only available in a few states, CO-OPs may not have the popularity to compete equally in state-based exchanges beginning in January of 2014.
The co-ops would compete with private insurers, but they wouldn't be run by the government, and that might meet the objections of some Republicans and moderate Democrats.
This will become a rout as new Web middlemen, or "demand aggregators, " let solo Web surfers gang up into virtual buying co-ops. n Turning services into software.
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