obamacare

Jefferson County GOP calls for Congress to repeal Obamacare immediately or replace leadership

Sep 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The Jefferson County Republican Party is demanding Congress immediately repeal the Affordable Care Act or, if it can’t, to elect new congressional leadership. A strongly worded resolution adopted unanimously by the county party’s executive committee Monday night maintains that the failure of congressional Republicans to overturn the sweeping health care legislation known as Obamacare “has…
Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper makes the case for HickCare on Capitol Hill

Sep 7, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper advocated a bipartisan revision to the nation’s health care insurance program during a U.S. Senate hearing Thursday. “Many people are angry and they have a right to be,” Hickenlooper, a Democrat, said during the hearing. Hickenlooper discussed the plan he developed with six other Democratic and Republican governors while the time…
Well-intended Hickenlooper-Kasich plan is but ‘a Band-Aid over a gushing wound’

Sep 5, 2017

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Jimmy Sengenberger

It’s refreshing to see solutions to complex problems plaguing this country come out of the “laboratories of democracy,” the states. On the surface, that is precisely what Colorado’s own Gov. John Hickenlooper and Ohio Gov. John Kasich did in presenting a health care plan to congressional leaders last week: They shared ideas straight from the…
Hickenlooper unveils bipartisan healthcare plan, his introduction to the national policy stage

Aug 31, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday established himself as a national policymaker by unveiling a bipartisan healthcare plan he co-authored with Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich. The seven-page plan included: The full blueprint is available here. “We want to look at every option for cost control,” Hickenlooper said in the West Foyer of the state Capitol…
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…
Gardner takes on the liberal boos at town hall meeting in Colorado Springs

Aug 15, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner sized up the crowd at his town hall meeting in in Colorado Springs. “How many people here support single-payer” health care, he asked the a packed 400-seat auditorium at Pikes Peak Community College. Maybe 80 percent of the hands in the room went up. And the senator’s odds of getting his…
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…
National Republicans launch ads tying 6th District Democrats to single-payer health care system

Aug 3, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A national Republican group is attempting to link congressional candidate Jason Crow and other Colorado Democrats to a single-payer health care proposal with a six-figure digital ad campaign that kicks off Thursday. Featuring scary negative images of House and Senate Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Facebook ad should…
Coffman among Problem Solvers with a bipartisan Obamacare fix

Aug 1, 2017

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Joey Bunch

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman of Aurora is among 40 centrist House members in the Problems Solvers Caucus that’s offering a bipartisan fix for Obamacare. They offered a proposal Monday to address insurance markets without dismantling the system millions of Americans rely on. The $215 billion proposal includes about $7 billion in cost-sharing subsidies this year…