By Sally Ho and Geoff Mulvhihill, The Associated Press SEATTLE — Riding the momentum from November’s elections, Democratic leaders in the states, including Colorado, are wasting no time delivering on their biggest campaign promise — to expand access to health care and make it more affordable. The first full week of state legislative sessions and swearings-in […]
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11 charts that help explain health care costs in Colorado
When the 2019 legislative session gets underway on Friday, health care — especially how much money goes into health care — will be among the most active topics of debate. Gov.-elect Jared Polis has vowed to take on prescription drug prices and also rejigger how insurance rates are calculated. Hospitals are girding for fights over […]
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Communities in the Colorado high country, hit hard by soaring premiums, offer medical cost-sharing programs to ease burden
VAIL — Chris Romer has watched families in the Vail Valley writhe under mortgage-sized payments for medical insurance. He’s watched state legislators and regulators fail to stem the soaring costs of health insurance in the Colorado high country, where a family policy easily tops $2,000 a month. And with the pending departure of the Affordable […]
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What is Medicare-X, Michael Bennet’s big idea to fix the American health insurance market?
Amid rumblings that he might be considering a run for president — and amid his not exactly saying “no” to questions of whether he is — Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is giving a new push to his grand idea for fixing America’s health insurance market. He calls it Medicare-X — “the best name I […]
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Why Colorado’s health insurance sign-up numbers look strong, even as the rest of the country struggles
The conventional wisdom about how health insurance enrollment across the country would go this year went something like this: B-R-U-T-A-L. Major Trump administration changes took effect that were likely to diminish people’s interest in buying plans through an insurance exchange. High prices continued to bedevil consumers. And national numbers so far bear these fears out: […]