If HB 1005 becomes law, people who buy health insurance will be forced to pay even higher premiums to fund changes that likely will not benefit them.
This mean-spirited bill requires that health sharing groups operating in other states report to the Colorado Commissioner of Insurance even if just one Colorado resident is a member.
By limiting year-to-year growth in state spending to reasonable levels, Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) limits the extent to which the legislature can bow to the Medicaid industry’s efforts to continuously expand the program.
The textbook portrayed people critical of universal health care and the Affordable Care Act as those in favor of injustice, inequity, and unfairness, a bias that might have been acceptable had the professor counterbalanced it with other viewpoints from respected experts.
They are disempowering all the power-hungry Colorado politicians to come. Oh. And the people too, if that matters.
On political grounds alone, the House Democratic leadership may decide that proceeding with impeachment would be ill-advised.
Although it is unclear whether Judge O’Connor will be sustained on appeal, his decision is a well-reasoned one.
A purported “law” passed in violation of the Origination Clause is void.
We had lower premiums and good protection for people with pre-existing conditions before ObamaCare.
The first, and most obvious shortcoming is that it does not in fact repeal Obamacare.
A draft press release reads, “The DOI and the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA, the Division’s home) will work with the legislature and the Governor’s office on the necessary legislation,” — but that never happened.
Compared to the exchange, the state’s high-risk pool, CoverColorado, was a bargain.
