DENVER (AP) — Bipartisan agreement on health care? It didn't last long in Colorado.
A proposal to set up a state health insurance exchange, a market in which individuals and small businesses could pool together for lower premiums, seemed to go on life support Thursday even as a Senate committee approved the measure after hours of testimony from doctors, nurses and businesses supporting the idea.
The shift came after a Republican backing the exchange, House Republican Leader Amy Stephens, sent a letter to her colleagues in the Senate suggesting an amendment that could pull the plug on an exchange.
Stephens, a co-sponsor of the plan, said the exchange has been interpreted as support for the federal health care law passed last year. Because of that, Stephens said the Colorado proposal should be enacted only if the federal government gives Colorado "a full waiver from all terms, restrictions, and requirements in the federal Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act of 2010."
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