Colorado Health Benefits Exchange: poor access & narrow provider network?

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:48 am, April 2, 2013

[I]f the health plans and hospitals contract with fewer providers, they can exert more leverage on doctors to limit services and keep costs down. Continue reading →

Tech troubles could hobble Colorado health exchange

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:44 am, March 29, 2013

Critical problems threaten the system, ranging from a lack of coordination with the state’s technology office and historic problems with state IT systems to poor oversight by exchange managers and contractors and the potential for serious conflicts of interest among those charged with creating the complex multi-million dollar exchange system. Continue reading →

Colorado Health Benefit Exchange: bare-bones and expensive plans

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, March 11, 2013

There’s mounting evidence that come fall, the health plans sold through the Obamacare exchanges will be bare bones affairs – with narrow networks of providers to select from, and heavy co-insurance once patients go “out of network.” Continue reading →

Colorado Health Benefits Exchange: Will Federal Rules Dominate?

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, August 1, 2012

Wisonsin Sec. of Health Dennis Smith on feds: “It’s not that they don’t have answers because they’re withholding it from us, it’s that they don’t have answers because they don’t have answers.” Continue reading →

States Can Still Kill Obamacare. But not Colorado. Thanks Amy Stephens.

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, July 13, 2012

States don’t need to wait until Election Day to take aim at a point of vulnerability that remains in place despite the Courts latest caprice. They can refuse to implement the laws insurance exchanges. Continue reading →

Contra Rep. Amy Stephens, States should reject ObamaCare insurance exchanges

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, June 11, 2012

While Colorado Rep. Amy Stephens continues to support the government controlled health insurance exchange she established with SB-200, Michael Cannon at Cato explains why this is a bad idea: Continue reading →

Colorado Health Benefits Exchange: Computer problems, will progress even if ObamaCare overturned?

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, April 24, 2012

The Urban Institute says that the biggest challenge for CO’s exchange that it’s “starting with a flawed foundation, a legacy computer system – CBMS Colorado Benefits Management System – that is inflexible and difficult to modify.” Continue reading →

Colorado SB 12-053: Why state insurance exchange should be repealed

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, January 30, 2012

The Citizens Council on Health Freedom recently sent out the following e-mail that summarizes key points about why repealing Colorado’s Health Benefits Exchange (SB 11-200) is a good idea: Continue reading →

Authorities to decide what health plans in “exchanges” cover, not a freed market

by Brian T. Schwartz | 6:30 am, December 13, 2011

The political process for controlling health plans is akin to having the FCC decide what features cell phone plans should cover. Surely there would be groups pushing to ban, say, plans that lack unlimited text messaging. This would increase the price of all plans, even for those who never text.

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State Legislators: Just Say No to Obamacare ‘Exchanges’

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:30 am, October 25, 2011

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has approved a Resolution Against PPACA Health Insurance Exchanges advocating the state legislators refrain from planning or establishing an ObamaCare health insurance “exchange.” Continue reading →

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