{"id":1302795,"date":"2019-01-24T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=444311"},"modified":"2019-01-24T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:00:01","slug":"colorados-polis-creates-office-to-reduce-health-care-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/colorados-polis-creates-office-to-reduce-health-care-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado\u2019s Polis creates office to reduce health care costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed an executive order creating an office to coordinate his administration\u2019s efforts to reduce health care costs.<\/p>\n<p>Polis signed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.gov\/governor\/sites\/default\/files\/b_2019_003_-_saving_people_money_on_healthcare.pdf\">order<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera heads the new Office of Saving People Money on Health Care.<\/p>\n<p>Its priorities include pursuing a state reinsurance program designed to help private insurers keep individual premiums down.<\/p>\n<p>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>He also hopes to pursue a state-sponsored insurance option as an alternative to private insurance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-mid-script\" class=\"p402_hide\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories For You<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Polis has vowed to eliminate cost disparities faced by thousands of rural and mountain residents who pay some of the nation\u2019s highest premiums because they have just one insurer under Colorado\u2019s state-run marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/colorados-polis-creates-office-to-reduce-health-care-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/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\u2019s 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":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1302795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 02:46:51","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}