Tag: health insurance
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Cigna to pull out of individual health market, affecting thousands in Colorado
Another firm is withdrawing from the individual health insurance market, including for Colorado, effective Jan. 1, 2027. The move by Cigna Healthcare is part of the company’s overall plan to withdraw entirely from the Affordable Care Act market. It will impact individual health plans for 369,000 members in 11 states, according to a company announcement…
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Researchers to study universal health care, as Coloradans face $1 billion in medical debt
Colorado residents owe about $1 billion in medical debt. The sky-high number is a small portion of the nation’s medical debt estimated around $220 billion, according to a 2024 analysis by Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF, formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation. As more people nationally are expected to lose their health insurance following planned…
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COLUMN: Tackling insurance costs will require political courage
Frustrated by rising insurance premiums, Colorado drivers and homeowners are giving state lawmakers an earful. Home insurance rates in our state have grown faster since 2020 than anywhere else in the nation, according to the Wall Street Journal. With full coverage auto insurance costing an average of $3,233 a year, Coloradans are paying $600 a…
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Colorado: Health insurance premiums set to double in 2026
Health insurance rates for middle-income Coloradans who buy their own coverage are set to double in 2026, according to the state’s insurance division. The statewide net average premium increase will hit 101%, the Colorado Division of Insurance said on Monday, adding that likely will mean that 75,000 Coloradans won’t be able to afford health insurance…
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Colorado lawmakers seek to redirect wolf program funds to pay for health insurance
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Among the more than two dozen bills contemplated for Thursday’s special session of the Colorado General Assembly is a proposal to pause funding for the wolf reintroduction program run by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The money — $264,268 — would be shifted to pay for…
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Grand Junction employees ‘out of luck’ in challenging city’s retiree health plan, appeals court rules
The immunity granted to government entities under state law bars a class action lawsuit against Grand Junction for the city’s alleged malfeasance in administering a health insurance program for retired employees, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. A trial judge previously found no evidence the city denied health benefits to any eligible retiree, but also…
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BEST OF COPO 2018 | High health insurance prices mean ill winds in Colorado’s high country
Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published Nov. 1. EAGLE — This is the time of year that businesswoman Janet Jordan dreads: Open enrollment on the individual and small-group health-insurance markets and the inevitably of rising prices on Colorado’s…