{"id":1318328,"date":"2020-02-19T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/total-cost-of-care-an-alternative-to-public-option\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T02:00:00","slug":"total-cost-of-care-an-alternative-to-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/total-cost-of-care-an-alternative-to-public-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Total cost of care an alternative to public option"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colorado state Sen. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, speaks on Feb. 1, 2019, at a town hall meeting in Frisco on the high cost of health care in Colorado’s mountain communities.<\/strong>
John Ingold | The Colorado Sun<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

As Democrats at the state Capitol near the introduction of the long-awaited and hugely controversial bill to create a public health insurance option, Colorado hospitals on Tuesday unveiled their counteroffer.<\/p>\n

Their proposal is a \u201ctotal-cost-of-care\u201d model \u2014 essentially a big health spending budget for the state. An independent commission would be charged with setting a target to limit how much health care spending in the state can grow each year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is all providers, all payers, for all Coloradans,\u201d said Chris Tholen, the CEO of the Colorado Hospital Association. \u201cIt really is a focus on a common shared goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is also, clearly, the hospitals\u2019 attempt to steer lawmakers away from a public insurance option, which many hospitals despise because it likely will give regulators the ability to tell hospitals how much they can charge people covered by the public option.<\/p>\n

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via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colorado state Sen. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, speaks on Feb. 1, 2019, at a town hall meeting in Frisco on the high cost of health care in Colorado’s mountain communities.John Ingold | The Colorado Sun As Democrats at the state Capitol near the introduction of the long-awaited and hugely controversial bill to create a public health […]<\/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":["post-1318328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-05 17:54:37","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\/1318328","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=1318328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}