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Colorado: Health insurance premiums set to double in 2026
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Health insurance rates for middle-income Coloradans who buy their own coverage are set to double in 2026, according to the state’s insurance division. The statewide net average premium increase will hit 101%, the Colorado Division of Insurance said on Monday, adding that likely will mean that 75,000 Coloradans won’t be able to afford health insurance…
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Connect for Health Colorado has serious financial management problems, audit says
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Worries that the quasi-governmental agency that operates Colorado’s official state-based health insurance marketplace was spending money for political purposes turned out to be unfounded, according to a new audit. But the state audit found that Connect for Health Colorado has serious problems with its financial management, including a lack of oversight on the use of…
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Enrollment on Colorado insurance marketplace jumps 14% compared to last November
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More than 50,500 Coloradans signed up for health insurance via the Connect for Health Colorado marketplace through Monday, a 14% increase from the same period last year. Division of Insurance cancels part of federal waiver on Colorado Option that critics called price-fixing Open enrollment began Nov. 1 and will close Jan. 15. Three-quarters of applicants…
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Percentage of Coloradans with health insurance unchanged over two years, survey shows
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More Coloradans than ever have health insurance, according to a massive biennial survey released Tuesday, although the state continues to see lower rates of coverage outside the Denver metro area. The Colorado Health Access Survey found the number of state residents without health insurance dipped slightly to 6.5 percent from 6.7 percent in 2015 –…
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Governor chided for mulling ‘blackmail tactics’ to keep insurer on board Obamacare
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Actually, the pro-GOP advocacy group Compass Colorado used even stronger language in a shot at Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper this week over his proposed use of carrot and stick on insurers to keep the state’s health insurance exchange viable. The governor himself put a more pragmatic spin on it. At issue is the governor’s acknowledgment Wednesday on Colorado Public Radio’s Colorado…
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If the Colorado Film Office was playing fast and loose, just imagine …
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… what other state agencies might have a similarly freewheeling approach with the public’s checkbook. So surmises conservative blog Colorado Peak Politics. ColoradoPolitics.com’s Peter Marcus reported earlier this week on a state audit that found none of the $1.9 million in incentives awarded to film projects shot in Colorado had met all the criteria for…
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Record signups at Colorado Obamacare exchange sure to raise Capitol temperatures
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Colorado’s state-based Obamacare insurance market, Connect for Health Colorado, on Monday reported a record number of health plan signups. More than 175,000 residents bought plans during the market’s annual three-moth enrollment period, which ended on Friday, according to Connect for Health. In a statement, the exchange reported that the rate of signups pushed ahead of…
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Capitol crowd roars against proposed rollbacks of health care coverage: ‘Obamacare! What a wonderful word’
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In the wake of a presidential executive order that this past weekend spurred historic airport protests, which followed on historic post-inauguration street protests the weekend before, supporters of the Affordable Care Act and the Colorado Obamacare health insurance marketplace gathered Tuesday on the west steps of the Capitol in Denver. The crowd- some 300 people…
