COLORADO MEDICAL COST ANXIETY

Patients and health care providers in Colorado are expressing anxiety around high health care costs as a result of the Trump administration’s policies, Colorado Newsline reports.

Costs for those purchasing health insurance on Colorado’s individual marketplace have doubled in the absence of enhanced federal subsidies, which Republicans in Congress declined to extend. 

The law will continue to destabilize a health care system that was already strained before it passed, according to Donald Moore, CEO of Pueblo Community Health Center, which serves as the primary care home for about 30,000 residents in the Pueblo area.