It is, moreover, a consumercooperative, founded 60 years ago by some climbers with no profit motive, just a need to import high-quality ice axes from Switzerland.
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"If you are looking at trying to get the interests of the insurance company to be essentially the same as a consumer who is getting that health insurance, then the cooperative is the way to do that, " Oemichen said.
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