Colorado is making national news as one of three states hailed by progressives for mandating public option insurance plans to eventually force us onto government-controlled health care because — big shock — it’s not working as expected.
Colorado, Washington state and Nevada all have the public option plans that are supposed to reduce costs while offering boutique services.
Colorado’s plan offers plastic surgery, acupuncture, HIV prevention drugs, gender reassignment, mental health, and issues resulting from substance abuse.
Turns out only one provider in Colorado can offer all the new options while promising to meet targeted costs. And yet it looks to us like those costs are still higher than other plans.
Politico reports on the downfall of public options, noting Colorado is still trying to get the plan off the ground for 2023.
Public option proponents argue that even if they haven’t been able to lower costs as much as expected, they’re able to offer consumers higher value plans with more robust benefits and networks that are more culturally responsive.
Progressives blame insurance companies for insisting on making a profit from the services it provides as the reason government’s costly big ideas would cost more money.
None of the states has hit on a magical solution to bring down costs or reduced the number of uninsured, Politico reports.
Progressives actually believe that consumers who did not need, nor could afford a product like health insurance, would fork over the money now just because the product checked off the woke boxes of hiring all the right people who would be responsible for sending us our bills.
Insurers are also forced to report on whether the providers in their networks have completed anti-bias training as though the insurance company were an accreditation agency responsible for monitoring ongoing education classes. Unless the woke fairy is paying whatever lucky employee is tasked with counting those beans, the additional cost will be borne by the one paying the premium.
And that’s exactly what is happening.
We are not a bit surprised Gov. Polis’s grand public option plan to move Colorado one step closer to government-controlled health care has failed before it even began.
But at least progressives can feel good that all the right genders are getting jobs to sell a product very few actually need.
Read more about Colorado’s woke plan here.