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Barbara Kirkmeyer Health care costs in Colorado are skyrocketing and Coloradans are seeing this firsthand at the pharmacy counter, with high out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs. Though significant progress has been made in the fight against COVID-19, more than a year into the pandemic these additional health care and economic burdens we face cannot be ignored. Therefore, Coloradoâs legislators have been looking for different ways to rein in costs, keeping in mind that our primary responsibility as lawmakers is to ensure an equitable life for all of our citizens. Dominick Moreno Although we come from different political parties, we share one common value: Coloradans must be put at the forefront of all legislation. When it comes to our health care cost burdens, including high cost of prescription drugs, we have identified a straightforward solution that will help ease the financial hardship for Coloradans across the state. ....
UpdatedWed, May 5, 2021 at 3:20 pm MT Reply Five Colorado lawmakers Rep. Steve Lebsock (D), Sen. Randy Baumgartner (R), Rep. Paul Rosenthal (D), Sen. Jack Tate (R) and Sen. Larry Crowder (R) have been accused of sexual misconduct since 2017. (Amber Fisher/Patch) DENVER, CO Five Colorado lawmakers are among more than 100 across the country now accused of sexual misconduct in the four years since the onset of the national #MeToo reckoning in 2017, according to data collected by The Associated Press. The state lawmakers are among other politicians, entertainers and business leaders exposed in the social justice movement to end sexual abuse and sexual harassment. The movement began in 2017 when movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, now a convicted sex offender, was accused by more than 80 women of sexual misconduct allegations dating back to the late 1970s. ....
Reply State lawmakers on a House committee approved a major rewrite Tuesday of one of the most controversial bills of the 2021 legislative session. (Shutterstock) Apr. 28, 2021 State lawmakers on a House committee approved a major rewrite Tuesday of one of the most controversial bills of the 2021 legislative session. Subscribe Originally, House Bill 21-1232 would have created a two-phase path to a government-established, nonprofit-managed public option for health insurance. The Colorado Option would have kicked in, in phase two, if insurers failed in phase one to meet premium reduction targets for standardized insurance plans sold on the individual and small-group market. The bill s sponsors scrapped the second phase the public option after weeks of extensive negotiations with groups representing hospitals, doctors and insurance carriers. Most of those groups switched from an opposed to neutral position with the amendment, according to Rep. Dylan Ro ....
Roberts and the other Democratic sponsors, Representative Iman Jodeh of Aurora and Senator Kerry Donovan of Vail, say the bill will still take unprecedented steps to lower health-care costs and improve access to care. Donovan and Roberts have worked for years on legislation to create a public option in Colorado. “We never wanted to accept that there was nothing that could be done to change the status quo, which is what a lot of people wanted to tell us,” Donovan said during an April 26 press conference announcing the amendment. “So excited to say that today, we did get folks to the table to do the hard work of figuring out how to decrease cost and increase choice.” ....