When last year’s legislative session gaveled in, the hottest show under the gold dome was the pending fight over the public option, one of the last big pieces of Gov. Jared Polis’ campaign promise to save people money on their health care.
The state’s economy was booming, Polis was past his honeymoon as governor and the bill sponsors, Sen. Kerry Donovan of Vail with Reps. Dylan Roberts of Avon and Chris Kennedy of Lakewood, had made the appropriate rounds making the case for affordable insurance.
They’ll make that case again this year, Donovan told Colorado Politics, likely dropping a similar but bolder insurance proposal early in the session that begins Jan. 13.