...up in Baxter.The city of Baxter joined the National Joint Powers Alliance cooperative in 2002 as a way to get lower health insurance premiums and pool its health insurance risk.Council members renewed its current plan Tuesday. Health insurance...

...subject to the state's approval, will be divided with $30 million going to community clinics, $70 million to lower health insurance companies' assessments from a risk pool for hard-to-insure people, and $60 million in direct payments to...