affordable care act

Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman draws primary challenge from ‘passionate patriot’ Roger Edwards

Nov 7, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Douglas County Republican Roger Edwards plans to announce Wednesday that he’s challenging U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in next year’s GOP primary, charging the five-term incumbent with paying lip service to conservative priorities and using “identity politics” to divide residents of the battleground 6th Congressional District, he told Colorado Politics. “It has become exceedingly more difficult…
Farm Bureau, CBRT meeting Monday focuses on Obamacare tax

Nov 3, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

A tax on insurers based on their size, a provision of the Affordable Care Act, is set to take effect Jan. 1, but the Colorado Business Roundtable and the Colorado Farm Bureau want to talk about how much of that will be passed on to small businesses, farmers and ranchers in higher premiums. They are…
DeGette co-sponsors bill to protect birth control rights

Oct 22, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Colorado U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette was a lead sponsor of a bill introduced Thursday to block the Trump administration from limiting women’s access to birth control. The bill is a response to Interim Final Rules from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this month that exempt employers from some requirements to…
Hickenlooper leads governors asking for cooperation on healthcare

Oct 19, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado’s Gov. John Hickenlooper leads a group of 10 governors asking Congress to vote on a bipartisan healthcare plan they say will calm the troubled waters of the private health insurance market. The support a bipartisan deal led by Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., for a two-year extension of federal subsidies to…
Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet, Tim Kaine unveil bill to create ‘Medicare-X,’ a public-option health plan

Oct 18, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado and Tim Kaine of Virginia, both Democrats, on Tuesday introduced legislation to create a government-run health insurance plan that would eventually allow anyone to buy coverage under Medicare, the federal program that covers the elderly. “This bill creates a true public option, which I believe we should have passed…
Colorado ski-resort county hopes to tax pot to fund mental health services

Oct 18, 2017

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David O. Williams Special to Colorado Politics

When Eagle County Public Health and Environment director Chris Lindley moved up to the Vail Valley from Denver a few months ago, he was stunned to learn his new home doesn’t have a single bed for people dealing with mental health or substance abuse issues. “Being new to the county and coming up here from…
Hickenlooper, Bennet knock Trump executive order to begin dismantling parts of Obamacare

Oct 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Warning it will lead to less coverage and higher health care costs, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet panned the executive order signed Thursday by President Donald Trump aimed at scaling back provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Both Democrats called on the Trump administration and Congress to adopt a bipartisan approach…
DeGette promotes discount drug program while Congress seeks health care reform

Oct 12, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Colorado U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette argued in favor of a discount drug pricing plan Wednesday while the president tries to overturn much of the previous administration’s health care program. President Trump said he would sign executive orders as soon as this week to eliminate some Affordable Care Act insurance rules. The 340B drug…
‘You are the swamp’: Conservative leaders demand Mitch McConnell step aside, cite failure to support Darryl Glenn

Oct 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A group of nationally prominent conservative organizers on Wednesday called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican Senate leaders to resign, charging they’ve failed to pass any substantive legislation even as the GOP controls every branch of government. “Republicans were given full control of the federal government,” the leading conservatives wrote in a…
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet: ‘I feel sorry for my Republican colleagues’

Oct 7, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, said Friday he feels sorry for Republican lawmakers faced with daily surprises from President Donald Trump. The Colorado Democrat also said he’s worried Trump is planning to exit the nuclear agreement with Iran amid mounting tensions with a nuclear-armed North Korea. “I feel sorry for my Republican colleagues,…