Healthcare

Key Questions for Universal Payer

May 1, 2024

In Colorado’s current healthcare system, the cost of providing care to a patient often exceeds the payment received in return for the services provided. On average among the various major health insurance groups (Medicare, Health First Colorado, private insurance, self-pay, CICP), only patients covered by private insurance pay the full amount of their cost of care back to their provider.

Gov. Jared Polis’s 2024 State of the State

Jan 12, 2024

CSI has been at the forefront of data analysis regarding each of the issues raised in the Governor’s address and has the following response.

Diagnosis of Colorado’s Healthcare Industry: Impact and Competitiveness Are Significant, but Warning Signs on the Rise

Jan 4, 2024

Colorado’s healthcare sector is a major driver of the state’s economy and is poised to only expand its role in the next 10 years.

Do Final Colorado Option Rates Deliver on the Promise of Consumer Savings?

Nov 16, 2022

The newly released 2023 health insurance rates show that, despite the state’s promise of savings and improved competition, non–Colorado Option plans will be less expensive and fewer health insurance options will be available to most Coloradans:

Inflation and the Colorado Option Plan

May 18, 2022

The Colorado Option, signed into law in 2021, is a state-regulated health insurance program which requires carriers to offer “standardized plans” within the individual and small-group markets at reduced prices.

The Evolution of the Colorado Public Option: CSI Impacting the Debate

Jun 11, 2021

After publishing 8 reports, 3 rounds of testimony, and over a dozen meetings with legislators, Common Sense Institute’s work has led the way in helping impact the debate and deliver the facts on the Colorado public option health care proposal…leading to lots of changes.

The Revamped Public Option Bill

May 13, 2021

Common Sense Institute analyzes the impacts of the amended version of HB21-1232, requiring premiums for the Colorado option to be set 18% lower than the 2021 average in the individual and small-group insurance markets, with some allowance for medical inflation.