obamacare
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Doug Lamborn: Republican tax legislation ‘puts a stake through the heart of Obamacare’
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U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn cheered word Friday that congressional Republicans had secured enough votes to pass a massive overhaul of the nation’s tax laws that President Donald Trump has said he hopes to sign before the end of the year but that Democrats say favors corporations and the wealthy without much helping everyone else. “The…
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Farm Bureau, CBRT meeting Monday focuses on Obamacare tax
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A tax on insurers based on their size, a provision of the Affordable Care Act, is set to take effect Jan. 1, but the Colorado Business Roundtable and the Colorado Farm Bureau want to talk about how much of that will be passed on to small businesses, farmers and ranchers in higher premiums. They are…
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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…
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Congress should delay Obamacare’s crippling health-insurance tax
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With the Senate looking toward what’s next on health care reform and open enrollment looming, one issue picking up bipartisan support is delaying the health insurance tax for 2018. Delaying the tax would be an immediate action Congress could take to lower premiums. In fact, if a delay of this tax is passed soon, individuals,…
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GOP attacks on Affordable Care Act jeopardize Colorado health, lives
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The newest iteration of congressional legislation to gut the Affordable Care Act – the Graham-Cassidy bill – would be devastating for Colorado. Politicians in Washington, D.C., keep trying to unilaterally impose upon America their vision of far more costly health care that covers far fewer people. This is more of the same. Like previous efforts…
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Unanswered questions about Hickenlooper’s ‘bipartisan’ Obamacare ‘fix’
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In his Aug. 31 news conference at the State Capitol, and again the following week in testimony before a committee of the U.S. Senate, Gov. Hickenlooper unveiled a “bipartisan plan” for improving the disastrous health care reform system dumped on the nation by very partisan Democrats in 2010. Yet, the “pragmatic proposals” put forward by…
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More health insurance plans proposed as lawmakers get desperate for solutions
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Republicans and Democrats in Congress proposed more revisions to the nation’s health insurance this week while Colorado politicians struggled with the same concerns over skyrocketing premiums that are fueling the national controversy. Governor John Hickenlooper continued to argue for a bipartisan plan while a gubernatorial candidate who wants his job recommended a Medicare-for-everyone option.…