If small businesses aren’t choosing the public health insurance option, it’s because other plans are better and cost less.
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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.
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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
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Colorado Option sign-up numbers are in. But the debate over the Jared Polis-backed insurance plan is far from over.
Approximately 35,000 people signed up for Colorado Option health insurance plans during the most recent open enrollment period
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Colorado officials accused of trying to tip scales in favor of a Jared Polis health insurance policy
Health insurance brokers say the state is interfering in the free market to favor the Colorado Option, potentially at consumers’ expense
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Colorado health insurance rates are set to rise next year — but some people could still pay less
2023 marks the first year of the Colorado Option, the initiative backed by Gov. Jared Polis
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Colorado governor signs priority bills to cut health insurance costs, limit prescription drug prices
Some private insurance companies operating in Colorado will soon be required to offer a state-regulated health insurance plan that eventually will be 15% cheaper than current rates under a bill signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Jared Polis. In addition to House Bill 1232, the health insurance measure, Polis also signed into law legislation creating […]
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Colorado Democrats abandon 2020 effort to pass public health insurance option
Democrats in the Colorado legislature on Monday said they are setting aside their contentious effort this year to pass a bill creating a public health insurance option. The prime backers of the legislation, House Bill 1349, say the coronavirus crisis has made it impossible to ensure that all of the relevant stakeholders — hospitals, doctors […]