Quoted: Whatever the future of health-care co-ops, Americans frequently interact with some kind of co-op without knowing it, said Ann Hoyt, a UW-Madison economist.
More than 29,000 co-ops around the country, from credit unions and Ace Hardware to Ocean Spray and the Associated Press, together have revenues of about $650 billion a year, Hoyt and other researchers with the UW Center for Cooperatives reported this year.