My attempt to address foot pain has led me down a multiple-month process that highlights how inefficient our health care system remains.
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Posted inOpinion Columns
Opinion: Insurance brokers are giving the Colorado Option a fair shot
If small businesses aren’t choosing the public health insurance option, it’s because other plans are better and cost less.
Posted inOpinion Columns
Opinion: The Colorado Option is great on paper. If only insurers would put it into action.
Small businesses need government to enforce the rules, to produce the premium reductions necessary to keep providing health coverage to workers.
Posted inHealth
Colorado is shutting down insurer Friday Health Plans, impacting more than 30,000 people
The move means people currently covered by the insurer will need to find new health care coverage this summer
Posted inHealth
Why every public rate hearing for the Colorado Option health insurance plans got canceled
The public rate hearings would have exposed more details on how health insurers and hospitals negotiate prices. But the debate over the Jared Polis-backed health insurance reform continues.
Posted inHealth
Why Colorado is taking a gamble with failing insurer Friday Health Plans
State regulators are hoping the so-called “insurtech” company can stay solvent in the state through the end of the year
Posted inCartoons
Jim Morrissey: Colorado Option so far defying critics
Although insurers have protested the low-cost, state-designed health plan, its vital signs appear stable, Sun cartoonist Jim Morrissey observes.
Posted inHealth
Why a showdown over Jared Polis’ big health insurance reform program fizzled — and what it means
Public hearings over prices for Colorado Option plans were supposed to kick off this week, but the first one was canceled
Posted inHealth
Health insurer Friday Health Plans goes under, leaving 30,000 Coloradans needing to find new coverage next year
Friday Health Plans’ announcement comes after it hit regulatory turmoil in Texas and other states
Posted inHealth
How a Texas judge’s Affordable Care Act ruling could impact health insurance coverage in Colorado
Colorado law protects coverage for preventive services — but that protection doesn’t extend to all insurance plans in the state