February 11, 2009 3:05 PM
Women must wait for insurance breaks
A bill that would end the practice of charging women more than men for health insurance is headed to a summertime interim committee rather than a fight on the floor.
Rep. Sue Schafer, D-Wheat Ridge, said she plans to amend her House Bill 1224 and get a bipartisan committee to look at it so that she can get across-the-board agreement on the measure. She anticipates introducing whatever comes out of the task force when the General Assembly convenes next year.
Younger and middle-aged women pay as much as 45 percent more for health-care coverage because of actuarial assessments that anticipate all women will become pregnant at some point in their lives and use their insurance to pay for it. Schafer hopes that Colorado, like 12 others states, will ban an applicant's gender as a factor in setting insurance rates.
"I really want to work with the insurance industry and not make it an adversarial relationship," she said about her bill.
February 11, 2009
4:27 PM
James Bowen writes:
We need to get rid of private insurance companies as the primary insurers and pass a Medicare For All bill that doesn't discriminate against people.
February 12, 2009
11:45 AM
Joe_Lunchbucket writes:
Yeah, Jimmie Boy, you just go ahead and trust politicians and bureaucrats to take care of you and your family. If government welfare is your bowl of pottage, you go ahead and enjoy it. But don't you dare tell me and my family that we must do the same. There's this little thing in America called freedom which doesn't give you the right to spend my money or dictate the way I spend it. Or at least that's the way it used to be.
February 16, 2010
11:33 PM
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3:11 PM
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