Colorado Health Benefits Exchange

Obamacare’s state-run insurance exchanges: stopping them is key 0
- April 17, 2012
Obamacare does not and cannot mandate that states create exchanges. Moreover, state-run exchanges do not preserve local control. They will do Washington’s bidding, or else they will be commandeered or swept aside. Continue reading →
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Feds scrounge for funds to create ObamaCare ‘Exchanges’0
- February 21, 2012
“[T]he federal government doesn’t have the money to create ObamaCare Exchanges, and the administration has no hope of getting that funding through the Republican-controlled House. So if states don’t create Exchanges, they might not exist.” Continue reading →
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Colorado SB 12-053: Why state insurance exchange should be repealed 0
- January 30, 2012
The Citizens Council on Health Freedom recently sent out the following e-mail that summarizes key points about why repealing Colorado’s Health Benefits Exchange (SB 11-200) is a good idea: Continue reading →
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Feds won’t add any insurance coverage mandates in exchanges – for now 0
- December 19, 2011
“Insurance providers will not have to offer any new health benefits beyond what the state of Colorado already mandates … in order to sell policies in health benefits exchanges, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced.” This won’t be a “race to the bottom,” contrary to critics. Continue reading →
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Authorities to decide what health plans in “exchanges” cover, not a freed market 0
- December 13, 2011
The political process for controlling health plans is akin to having the FCC decide what features cell phone plans should cover. Surely there would be groups pushing to ban, say, plans that lack unlimited text messaging. This would increase the price of all plans, even for those who never text.

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Employer mandate for “affordable coverage” creates confusing incentives for employers, employees 0
- November 10, 2011
If [an employer] does offer health insurance, the worker with dependents will prefer that the coverage is unaffordable. That’s not a typo — if the coverage is unaffordable, then the employee will be able to buy health insurance for his family on the exchange. Continue reading →
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