healthcare

Staff picks: The top 5 stories of the week in Colorado Politics

Sep 3, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

The news of the week in Colorado Politics ran to and from Washington, with the visit of congressional Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, while Gov. John Hickenlooper made a pitch to Washington on healthcare. These are the stories out staff thinks you should keep in mind in the days and weeks ahead: 5. Dierdorff, we hardly…
Experts: Hick-Kasich healthcare reform plan incremental, but positive first steps

Sep 1, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

After months of legislative wrangling by Congressional Republicans to replace President Barack Obama’s health law, a bipartisan group of governors are trying something different: Tinker with what’s already in place. A plan released Thursday by Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper and Ohio’s Republican Gov. John Kasich largely works within the framework of the nation’s existing health…
Hickenlooper-Kasich plan calls for state and federal partnership on healthcare

Aug 31, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s office released a copy of the bipartisan healthcare plan he and Ohio Gov. John Kasich will send to Congress to consider when it returns from its August recess in a few days. Hickenlooper has called an 11 a.m. press conference at the Capitol to talk about the proposal. The chat will…
Hickenlooper to spell out bipartisan healthcare plan he and Kasich drew up

Aug 31, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has summoned the press to the state Capitol Thursday morning to lay out the bipartisan healthcare proposal he and Ohio Gov. John Kasich have been working on and talking about for weeks. Hickenlooper, a Democrat, and Kasich, a Republican, are being discussed nationally as an odd couple who might form an…
Hickenlooper on ‘Face the Nation’: Governors can lead on healthcare plan

Aug 6, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, and his pal John Kasich, Ohio’s Republican governor, said Sunday morning that bipartisanship at the state level could lead Washington out of gridlock over healthcare. “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson asked Hickenlooper how the politics of it would work, and whether it would start from the “base of…
Sen. Cory Gardner says Republicans aren’t done on healthcare at Western Conservative Summit

Jul 22, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner told a crowd of thousands at the Western Conservative Summit Friday night that Republicans in Congress, as early as next week, will address healthcare. The Senate GOP’s effort to repeal and replace Obamacare collapsed last week. Gardner never said how we would have voted on that bill, even though he…
INSIGHTS: Colorado legislature’s progress on hospitals could be a lesson for Congress

Jun 16, 2017

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Peter Marcus

I spent Monday in Hugo, a tiny town on the Eastern Plains that was thrust into the spotlight this legislative session. Subscribers can read about that online Monday and in our print edition, The Statesman. Lincoln Community Hospital, located in Hugo in Lincoln County, was highlighted as a rural hospital that would take significant budget…
Republicans defend plan to repeal health insurance exchange despite protests

Jan 31, 2017

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Peter Marcus

As demonstrators called for keeping the status quo, Colorado Senate Republicans on Tuesday argued the case for what is so far a one-party effort to repeal the state’s health-insurance exchange. Dozens of activists and some Democratic lawmakers gathered on the steps outside the legislature for a demonstration opposing the Republican effort to repeal Connect for Health Colorado, the state’s marketplace for purchasing…
For Trump and GOP, ‘Obamacare’ repeal is complex and risky

Nov 22, 2016

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Alan Fram

Here’s the idea: Swiftly pass a repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care law, perhaps soon enough for Donald Trump to sign it the day he takes the presidential oath. Then approve legislation restructuring the nation’s huge and convoluted health care system – despite Republican divisions, Democratic opposition and millions of jittery constituents. What could…