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Colorado’s health care consumers get some new safeguards, could use more
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The Colorado 2018 legislative session was full of bills on a range of health care issues, but legislative gridlock prevented progress on important issues for consumers like out-of-network surprise bills, rising drug costs, too little insurance competition, and skyrocketing insurance costs. However, Colorado lawmakers did succeed in passing legislation that will help consumers who utilize…
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Colorado bill to force Medicaid recipients to seek jobs fails in committee
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DENVER – A bill that sought to make Colorado the fourth state to require able-bodied Medicaid recipients to hold or look for jobs failed Thursday. Sen. Beth Martinez Humenik, R-Thornton, joined with Democrats to sink Senate Bill 214 on a 3-2 vote by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. She cited the high cost to…
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Colorado Senate bill would add work requirements for Medicaid recipients
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DENVER – The next big fight at the Colorado Capitol gets an opening bell Thursday when a Senate committee hears a bill to make many of those Medicaid get back to work or at least look for a job. Senate Bill 214, sponsored by Republican Sen. Larry Crowder of Alamosa and Rep. Susan Beckman of…
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Congress guts health care to help suffering millionaires in tax heist
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On Friday, the Senate voted to pass devastating health care cuts that target working and middle-class Coloradans – but this time, it was hidden in the Republican tax plan. This bill that affects our entire economy was voted on without public hearings, with no public text of the bill, without updated economic and budget scores,…
