Colorado, Pueblo insurer said the high premiums of health insurance funds are justified
DENVER - Pueblo County’s social and economic profile makes it vulnerable to high health care costs, leading to even higher rates of health insurance.
The obvious conclusion was to interviews and documents on the causes of insurance companies provide alarming to justify increases in premiums for nationals not only workers but virtually all of a private health plan in Pueblo.
Pueblo legislator, with the help of you, Bill Owens, replied that the State party to the problem of workers during the last meeting of the special legislative procedures.
It adopted a bill to increase the contribution of the Government on the health status of workers premium of $ 3 million, including $ 1.8 million in Pueblo, where rising interest rates more high.
This is only a temporary solution, given that the additional funds has been adopted only for the last seven months of the exercise of state - from December to next June.
The governor and legislators Pueblo has promised to work on a lasting solution to the regular session opened in January.
The public service workers and Pueblo people of the rule has been asked why they are used for higher quotas.
In response to requests for Owens and Senate majority Leader Bill Thiebaut for an investigation, the National Commissioner of Insurance William Kirven there has been no evidence of discrimination against rate Pueblo.
Kirven may not have considered if the governor and legislators Pueblo had asked him. The Commissioner is virtually powerless to control rising costs of health premiums. Colorado is a so-called “file” state, meaning that insurers do not require prior authorization to increase rates.
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