Tag: Health Insurance
Nation’s most expensive healthcare region may see relief
Colorado's Division of Insurance announced today that it's making moves to lower mountain-dwellers' high premiums by pooling expensive regions into larger blocks that — hopefully — will allow for better insurance rates.
The deadline approacheth!
A week. That's how long some 250,000 Coloradans have to purchase themselves some Presidentially-approved, federally-mandated health insurance on the internet.
Colo. Obamacare launch on track with Mass. Romneycare launch
Obamacare in Colorado is outpacing Romneycare in Massachusetts when you compare 2013 early enrollment numbers here to 2007 early enrollment numbers there.
This week the Internet will be an Obamacare information jungle
It's a big week for Obamacare and the Internet is just beginning to bubble with the kind of material that will bring the whole network to a confusing rolling boil by Tuesday when the law's signature insurance exchanges are set to launch.
DeGette seeks to win permanent health insurance for seasonal firefighters
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is moving forward with a bill she introduced Tuesday that would extend health insurance coverage to seasonal firefighters and their families.
Lunchtime links: Wealthy Republican lawmakers want tax cuts; Americans want jobs
The Bush tax cuts, which will disproportionately benefit millionaire Washington DC lawmakers in relation to the rest of the nation's population, are a low...
‘Obamacare’ not the cause of Colorado rate hikes
In the wake of the contentious health care reform legislative battle waged in the media and on the political stump most of last year and this year, health insurance premiums are rising in Colorado. State Insurance Commissioner Marcy Morrison has been fielding phone calls from angry consumers and wants to be clear: Insurance companies are hiking rates just as they have been doing consistently for years and not because of "Obamacare."
Mixed-bag Anthem settlement and Obamacare funds put insurers on notice
Although a large portion of the $20 million that health insurance giant Anthem Wellpoint agreed to pay Colorado policyholders will simply funnel back to Anthem, the settlement and the new $1 million that Colorado insurance industry regulators will receive this year through the new health reform legislation sends a strong message to insurers to deal fairly in the state, according to consumer advocates and commissioners at the state's regulatory Division of Insurance.
Swalm takes last swipe at gender equality insurance bill
DENVER-- The House easily passed a bill this morning to end health-insurance gender rating over the objections of Spencer Swalm, R-Centennial, who argued today as he has throughout the session, that the bill would unfairly raise rates for men.
McCann health insurance reform bills gain steam heading to state Senate
State Rep. Beth McCann, D-Denver, is carrying two major health insurance reform bills this legislative session and has managed to move the bills through...