Colorado health care

Is the Colorado Health Benefits exchange built to fail?0
- July 6, 2011
Last week Governor Hickenlooper’s office announced the members of the Colorado Health Benefits Exchange Board. Paul Howard and Stephen T. Parente write why such exchanges are built to fail. Because of a “litany of new minimum-insurance requirements and regulations … health insurance purchased through an exchange will likely end up more expensive than it is now.”
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Hickenlooper’s veto of SB 11-213 insults low-income parents 0
- June 27, 2011
Published in the Boulder Daily Camera: Maintaining current Child Health Plan fees would not only be an injustice to taxpayers, but also an insult to eligible parents. The fees imply that parents value enjoying life’s amenities more than their own children’s health.
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Gov. Hickenlooper wrong to veto Colorado SB11-213 0
- June 7, 2011
Gov. John Hickenlooper was wrong to veto Senate Bill 213, which would have increased Child Health Plan Plus premiums for families earning more than twice the federal poverty level. What’s unfair is that Colorado compels taxpayers to fund a program that allows eligible parents to value satisfying bodily appetites more than their children’s healt
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Colorado SB 11-213: Parents should value children’s health more than sweets & booze 0
- May 20, 2011
If the state must compel taxpayers to fund CHP+, Senate Bill 213 would increase enrollment fees so eligible parents can more sensibly weigh the costs of their kids’ health care against the costs of booze, tobacco, sweets and movies.
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SB 11-128: Colorado government compels insurers to sell plans to kids 0
- May 11, 2011
Colorado authorities are forcing insurers to sell child-only health plans to parents, and at the same price regardless of the child’s health risk. This encourages insurers to cater to healthy people & underprovide to the sick.
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Colorado SB 11-213: Parents can afford higher child health plan fees 0
- May 9, 2011
Colo. SB 11-218: Households earning twice the federal poverty limit can afford higher fees for the Colo. Child Health Plan Plus. Many kids in such households have commercial insurance, & the poorest U.S. households spend more than $100/month on booze, sweets, tobacco, & entertainment. $20/month for one kid isn’t too much.
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