It’s hard to imagine some 600 organizations, mostly nonprofits, agreeing on anything and working in concert to accomplish a common goal. Or major hospitals — often in competition with one another to attract patients and provide quality health care services — collaborating.

Arizonans are beginning to warm to the new federal health insurance marketplace, but actual enrollment numbers for new private policies that will take effect Jan. 1 are still extremely low.

WASHINGTON – Only 739 Arizona residents signed up for health insurance in the first month after the troubled health insurance marketplace went online, according to numbers released this week on the centerpiece of the Affordable Care Act.

A new study says nearly 60 percent of Arizonans who can buy health insurance through the federal marketplace will qualify for a tax subsidy.

Young people who fall into a gap between their parents’ health insurance plans and coverage through employers need to get information on how the federal exchange now open in Arizona can protect them should they face major health problems, advocates said Monday.

Arizona health centers are receiving $2.3 million to help patients find insurance under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.