KAISER HEALTH NEWS
Colorado Exchange Watchdog Likes What It Sees
Colorado lawmakers overseeing the set-up of the state’s health insurance exchange are generally pleased with how it’s going, but they are worried some residents will still be “left out in the cold,” without insurance even if the exchange works well.
Colorado is one of 16 states and the District of Columbia that chose to set up its own exchange, via a bipartisan bill the state passed in 2011. Republicans agreed to vote for it only if it included a special legislative oversight committee that would allow a majority to block exchange funding requests.
That hasn’t happened yet, but oversight committee hearings have been testy in the past. Not so last Thursday, the final hearing before the exchange’s opening day October 1. It was remarkable for the praise members from both parties heaped upon exchange leadership.
Creating an exchange “was not something I was convinced was the right thing to do,” said Republican Rep. Bob Gardner, who voted against the exchange bill, “but (I) have become convinced.”
He said he has been impressed with exchange leaders, and observed, at the hearing’s end, that the exchange “is on a road to success.”
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