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A new ad campaign, designed to counter misinformation from opponents of the Colorado Option Health Benefit bill, is set to launch on Friday.
But House Bill 1232, which was scheduled for its first committee hearing on Friday, has now been pushed back to next week, to allow parties more time to negotiate.
The Colorado Option Health Benefit Plan has two phases, according to HB 1232: in the first phase, the health care market, namely health insurance providers, drug companies and hospitals, are expected to find a way to reduce health insurance premiums in the individual and small group markets by 10% per year for two years, beginning in 2023.
She pays $3,062.48 a month for health insurance to cover this constant stream of treatment, which she can only afford with the help of a GoFundMe online fundraiser. She is too sick to work and is a single mother â her only income is child support payments.
Amid all of this, when Pinedaâs finished with doctorsâ appointments for the day and her four-year-old is asleep, she uses her last stores of energy to fight for the government-run healthcare program Medicare for All and its New York state equivalent.
âThis is my gift from the universe,â Pineda told the Guardian. âIf nothing else, the fact that I didnât die from Covid just ramped up my overwhelming desire to get Medicare for All and the New York Health Act.â
Public Option Gets A New Look
Why do we have these proposals now?
“In general, there’s a lot of frustration that the cost of coverage is so much higher than it was in the past,” Janet Trautwein, CEO of the National Association of Health Underwriters, said at the association’s virtual Capitol Conference earlier this year. “Largely, it’s because of the high cost of medical care. But it’s also frustration over cost-sharing how high deductibles are compared to in the past. People are asking, ‘Is there a different way to do this?’”
Frustration with the current system has led to full-blown single-payer proposals as well as to proposals for incremental additions to current government-run programs, Trautwein said. These proposals include Medicare for All, a buy-in to Medicare, a buy-in to Medicaid and a public option.
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