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Amendment for ObamaCare waiver stalls Colo. Health Insurance Exchange, SB 11-200

Ed Sealover at The Denver Business Journal reports:

A business-brokered bill to create a state health care exchange in Colorado faces an uncertain future after Republicans united against it in a Senate committee Thursday when Democrats refused to add an amendment requiring Gov. John Hickenlooper to seek a waiver from federal health care reform. …

The amendment — which was offered by Sen. Shawn Mitchell, R-Broomfield, but was written by the bill’s House sponsor, Republican Majority Leader Amy Stephens of Monument — blindsided a coalition of business groups that had worked for months to craft a bill acceptable to them. …

[T]he bipartisan legislative coalition shattered when Mitchell introduced an amendment that would ban the bill from being implemented unless Hickenlooper … requests and receives a federal waiver for Colorado from all requirements of the [so-called] Affordable Care Act.

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