obamacare
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Where the blame will fall if ACA subsidies expire, according to a new poll
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty-two-year-old Dinam Bigny sank into debt and had to get a roommate this year, in part because of health insurance premiums that cost him nearly $900 per month. Next year, those monthly fees will rise by $200 — a significant enough increase that the program manager in Aldie, Virginia, has resigned himself…
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Colorado’s Michael Bennet rode outrage over last government shutdown to presidential bid | TRAIL MIX
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Only weeks after the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history ended with congressional Democrats’ demands to restore health care funding previously cut by Republicans left dangling, the high-stakes standoff that dominated political news for 43 days has already receded into the hazy mists of the country’s addled short-term memory. National polling released this week…
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Colorado sends notices to ACA enrollees as premiums set to double
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Without the enhanced federal subsidies that reduce payments when Americans buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, Colorado premiums are expected to double. And if not for supplemental money Colorado lawmakers approved during special session, the 101% average increase would have been 147%, said Kevin Patterson, the CEO for Connect for Health Colorado, which…
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Colorado’s Democratic senators slam deal to end shutdown, vow to fight for health care tax credits
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Colorado’s two Democratic U.S. senators voted against a bipartisan deal reached Sunday to end the longest federal government shutdown in history, blasting the package’s failure to extend some health insurance tax credits. The full Senate passed spending legislation late Monday that could pave the way to reopen the government before the end of the week…
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Colorado lawmakers trade blame over federal government shutdown, call on the other side to bend
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Colorado’s Democratic and Republican lawmakers dug in Wednesday, as the federal government entered its first shutdown in nearly seven years after Congress failed to approve rival stopgap spending plans put forward by the two parties the night before. Both sides insisted that their political opponents are to blame for plunging the country into a crisis…
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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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HUDSON | Colorado’s health care conundrum: Is it a private or public good?
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The passing of Bill Coors reminds me that the challenge of providing affordable access to health care across Colorado has produced a recurring history of failed reforms. For nearly 40 years voters have reported the cost of medical insurance as their number one, two or three policy concern, depending on what else was jarring the…
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Obamacare: Will it be the Democrats’ secret weapon in the election?
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The voter anger over health care that once propelled Republicans to the majority in the House and Senate is now buoying Democrats’ hopes for the midterm elections. When Democrats in 2010 passed and rolled out Obamacare, formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, voters shouted down lawmakers at town halls and rallied…
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Obamacare insurers ask for 6% average premium increase in Colorado
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Health insurance companies in Colorado have asked to increase premiums by an average of 5.94 percent for 2019 in the Affordable Care Act individual market, a milder increase than some other states, according to rate filings. No insurers are leaving the state’s Obamacare insurance exchange, and every county will have at least one health insurer…
