health insurance
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BEST OF COPO 2018 | High health insurance prices mean ill winds in Colorado’s high country
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Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published Nov. 1. EAGLE — This is the time of year that businesswoman Janet Jordan dreads: Open enrollment on the individual and small-group health-insurance markets and the inevitably of rising prices on Colorado’s…
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COVER STORY | High health insurance prices mean ill winds in Colorado’s high country
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EAGLE — This is the time of year that businesswoman Janet Jordan dreads: Open enrollment on the individual and small-group health-insurance markets and the inevitably of rising prices on Colorado’s Obamacare insurance exchange. “Every year when I go through this, I have employees expressing anger and upset and spouses expressing anger and upset,” Jordan said.…
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Could laws like one in Colo. reduce medical costs? A US Senate committee aims to find out
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WASHINGTON – A U.S. Senate committee held a hearing Tuesday to decide whether laws like a new one in Colorado that requires health care price transparency could bring down medical costs. Proposals the Senate is considering would require doctors and hospitals to post their prices for common procedures on the internet. As health insurance prices…
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Senate searches for ways to reduce health care administrative costs
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WASHINGTON – Health care officials at a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday advocated methods to reduce the industry’s administrative expenses in ways similar to those proposed by Colorado Democrats. Administrative burdens from insurers and government regulators commonly represent 8 percent of patients’ bills, according to the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.…
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Urge lawmakers to put a stop to non-medical switching now
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Isn’t it logical that health care should be about improving a patient’s health? “Non-medical switching” is a heartbreaking example of when it isn’t. It is the term used to describe how patients, oftentimes with chronic illnesses, are forced by their insurance plan to take less expensive medications that, studies show, are often less effective. It…
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Trump rekindled Roberts’ political fire, but housing is newest state rep’s burning issue
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Former Obama field organizer and state legislative policy analyst Dylan Roberts wasn’t planning to jump back into politics after he got his law degree from the University of Colorado and landed a job as a deputy district attorney in Eagle County. Then Trump happened. “I was going to take a break from politics for a…
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DeGette co-sponsors bill to protect birth control rights
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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…
