jim smallwood
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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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#Coleg Week 5: State Obamacare repeal, construction defects, weed clubs, tax breaks for private school parents, home energy storage
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What’s happening this week under the gold dome? Here are some select highlights from the legislative schedule, all of which of course subject to change, given that there are 100 lawmakers and a million lobbyists in the building each day. Monday HB 1038, prohibiting corporal punishment in public school and state-licensed day care centers. The…
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Making the Sausage: A conspiracy of reasonable freshman senators
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Friday in the state Senate chamber, Sen. Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, crossed the aisle as they say – literally crossed the aisle – to speak with Sens. Kevin Priola, R-Henderson, and Jim Smallwood, R-Parker. Photos suggest it was a sincere and informational back and forth, just three freshman senators talking shop. It was all over in…
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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…
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Low-key Smallwood presents flash-point Obamacare state exchange repeal bill
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State Sen. Jim Smallwood, R-Parker, said on Thursday that he was inspired to run a bill to shutter the state’s Obamacare health insurance market, Connect for Health Colorado, because he feared the market would soon collapse in rural counties and because he believed the state could save at least $5 million annually by giving up…
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Newbie state Senators Fenberg, Smallwood step into the ring
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“Thank you,” newly elected state Senate President Kevin Grantham, R-Canon City, said in a speech that launched the chamber’s business on its first day of the 71st General Assembly Wednesday. “And welcome … to all of the holdovers, the crossovers, the do-overs, our re-elected members and our two new members: Senators Fenberg and Smallwood,” he…
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Colorado senators optimistic for 2017 legislative session, but prepared for Washington-induced spiral
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In Colorado’s upper legislative chamber everything is different and everything has stayed the same. For years, Democrats have held the reins of power at the Capitol, and Republicans have exerted what influence they could by acting as the loyal opposition – mainly by blocking bills and offering alternative policy narratives. Most observers expect that arrangement…
