The Special Interests are Back
and Working Overtime in Colorado.
If you have adequate health insurance, you are on active duty or retired from military service, you are on Medicare, or you have purchased additional medical coverage, you would be paying for coverage you likely already have.
Why do the special interests persist? Because they think you will not oppose them. We think they are wrong, and you will speak out.
After no-fault with its costly required medical coverage went away, Colorado moved from one of the top-ten costliest states for auto insurance to 21st least expensive in the USA, according to the latest research by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. But Senate Bill 256, passed in 2007, requires an expansion of uninsured and underinsured motorists coverage, so some Coloradans may see an increase in our rates, just for UM/UIM coverage. Others won't see an increase. We continue to save on car insurance, but this shows what can happen in the legislature!
Think back on all the announcements of companies lowering insurance rates that you have seen, heard and read over the past months. You know that insurance is a highly regulated business, and insurers couldn’t announce lower rates if it weren’t true:
- Auto insurance rates decline as tort law reaches four years (The Tribune)
- State Farm slates rate cut, citing tort-system savings (The Denver Post)
The big hospitals are making good profits: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/apr/11/for-profit-healthone-hospitals-well-in-black/ But some of them continue to complain because they aren't making as much money to treat a broken arm or leg as they did under Colorado's old, expensive and inefficient no-fault system. And some medical providers are complaining that they aren't making as much money as they were. They like the bad old days when your family's insurance bills were climbing and climbing.
Get informed. Protect your pocketbook:
- Get the facts on what's happening.
- Sign up for email updates so we can get in touch with breaking information.
- Check the " Hot Issues" area for specific bills in front of the legislature .
- Contact your legislators and have your voice heard.
- Listen to our first radio commercial fighting back against higher rates and fewer choices for Coloradans and their auto insurance.
- We'll be adding more and more personal stories and testimonials from real Coloradans talking about their insurance and what it costs. Have a story of your own to share? Send it to us and we'll add your voice to this site too.