Joyce Foster

DENVER– The Senate today sent legislation for the governor to sign into law that will require insurance companies here to include maternity coverage with a majority of the policies they sell. The legislation will also require insurance companies to include contraception in all policies.
The bill, HB 1021, sponsored in the Senate by Denver Democrat [...]

DENVER– State Senate Republicans today opposed a bill that aims to require insurance companies to provide individual-market plans that include maternity and contraception coverage. The bill passed a second reading with the support of Senate Democrats, but Republicans said it would drive up insurance rates and swell the ranks of the uninsured. One senator made an anti-abortion argument against the bill and one argued against it for personal financial reasons.

DENVER– Planned Parenthood of the Rockies staff and supporters descended on the capitol today as part of an annual effort to lobby lawmakers. This year about 80 of the organization’s supporters specifically targeted legislators who will be considering a Senate version of a bill that would mandate individual market health insurance plans to include maternity [...]

A proposed state bill that would require Colorado insurance companies to cover maternity care has a new addition: The bill would also require insurance companies to cover birth control.

News outlets across Colorado Monday published a four-sentence AP story reporting that “Colorado lawmakers” rejected a resolution urging Congress to pass a single-payer health reform plan. The tantalizing mini-story, designed uniquely perhaps for the Twitter-obsessed, raised more questions than it answered.
The state lawmakers voting yesterday were the ten members appointed to an interim legislative [...]

After numerous delays, the Aurora City Council will debate, on Monday, whether to offer insurance benefits to same-sex partners of city employees. This comes just after the Colorado State Senate gave initial approval to a bill that would do the same for state employees. The Colorado Independent will be live-blogging the Aurora decision starting at 7:30 p.m.

Political Action Committees, which typically represent labor or business concerns, have long shoveled money toward candidates. But in the past two years since Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff plead guilty to bribery charges, PACs and other interest groups have fallen out of favor with some politicians who want to maintain a squeaky clean image.