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Update: Colorado’s public/private healthcare option clears first hurdle The battle lines...
Update, March 12: Late Wednesday night, members of the Colorado House Health and Insurance Committee passed a bill to create a new health...
Gov. Polis puts health care, tax cuts at top of priority...
Gov. Jared Polis delivered his State of the State address on Thursday, laying out priorities for the 2020 session that include cutting the costs...
Here are five hot spots of the 2020 legislative session Businesses...
A political advertisement, paid for by a Washington, D.C.-based group made up of mostly drugmakers, insurance companies and private hospitals, aired last month on...
Littwin: Hick, Bennet might have been better off in Round 1...
The first round of the Democratic primary debates — which, of course, are not really debates; you can’t have a debate with 10 contestants...
Littwin: Bennet does well in his town hall, but how much...
If you missed it, Michael Bennet did well in his CNN town hall with Dana Bash Thursday night. The question now is whether doing...
Ask the Indy: What’s going on with universal health care in...
Steve Winters, a 55-year-old retired small business owner from Denver, has a straightforward question for The Colorado Independent: What are lawmakers and the governor doing...
Littwin: What are the chances a pro-business moderate can win a...
I just read Corey Hutchins' sit-down with Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne on her decision to run for the Democratic nomination for governor. And I'm...
Progressive groups unveil deficit-reduction plan
Our Fiscal Security, a partnership of progressive policy organizations Demos, the Economic Policy Institute and the Century Foundation, unveiled a deficit reduction plan Monday,...
The partial return of the public option
Four months after President Barack Obama enacted the Affordable Care And Patient Protection Act, House Democrats have resurfaced a top liberal priority buried near the end of the grueling year-long battle over health care reform: the public option.
The pivotal quiet Kucinich decision: ‘Claims of government takeover a joke’
Dennis Kucinich, Democratic Congressman from Ohio and champion of the public option, didn't make his decision to vote for the health care bill in...