Health Care Talk (HCTalk.com)

[Denver Dave]

Health Access Pueblo [Colorado]
A Community Multi-Share Healthcare Partnership
http://www.healthaccesspueblo.org/

"Welcome to Health Access Pueblo (HAP), Pueblo County’s own three-share program. Local partnerships with Parkview Medical Center, St. Mary Corwin Medical Center, Pueblo Community Health Center, County of Pueblo, participating health care providers, businesses, members and community leaders are contributing to Health Access Pueblo’s success. These community partnerships have made it possible to offer affordable health coverage to employers who have not had a group plan for their employees."

"HAP is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide high quality health care coverage to qualified persons who work for firms based in Pueblo County. HAP is not an insurance company, and its coverage is not insurance."

[Denver Dave]

Novel health plans try to help uninsured
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-15-share-health-care_N.htm?csp=usat.me

The restaurant is one of 30 employers participating in a county program to provide low-cost coverage to employees of small businesses. The approach is called "three share" because the $180 monthly premium is divvied up equally among the employer, the worker and the community. In Pueblo, two local hospitals pay the community portion.