{"id":1385689,"date":"2019-01-24T11:49:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=963948"},"modified":"2019-01-24T11:49:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:49:35","slug":"polis-creates-office-to-reduce-colorado-health-care-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/polis-creates-office-to-reduce-colorado-health-care-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Polis creates office to reduce Colorado health care costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AP18174651596698-1-620x443.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium-large size-medium-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AP18174651596698-1-620x443.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AP18174651596698-1-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AP18174651596698-1-325x232.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AP18174651596698-1-1240x887.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">DENVER (AP) \u2014 Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed an executive order creating an office to coordinate his administration&#8217;s efforts to reduce health care costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Polis signed the\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.gov\/governor\/sites\/default\/files\/b_2019_003_-_saving_people_money_on_healthcare.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">order<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera heads the new Office of Saving People Money on Health Care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Its priorities include pursuing a state reinsurance program designed to help private insurers keep individual premiums down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Polis wants to give consumers increased up-front hospital price transparency and reduce prescription costs, possibly by importing cheaper prescription drugs from Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He also hopes to pursue a state-sponsored insurance option as an alternative to private insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Polis has vowed to eliminate cost disparities faced by thousands of rural and mountain residents who pay some of the nation&#8217;s highest premiums because they have just one insurer under Colorado&#8217;s state-run marketplace.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/polis-creates-office-to-reduce-colorado-health-care-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed an executive order creating an office to coordinate his administration&#8217;s efforts to reduce health care costs. Polis signed the\u00a0order\u00a0Wednesday. Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera heads the new Office of Saving People Money on Health Care. Its priorities include pursuing a state reinsurance program designed to help private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-28 16:45:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}