CHI Featured in TIME Magazine Article About Public Option in States

A July 1, 2021 article in TIME, States Are Leading the Way on a Public Health Insurance Option, covers legislative activity in Colorado, Nevada, and Washington, outlines how the public option works, and reports on the pushback from hospitals and providers.

CHI Director of Communications Joe Hanel commented on the dynamics involved in Colorado's public option bill: “The hospital lobby’s powerful and they have a lot of money and you don’t want them spending millions of dollars every year for the next several years trying to tear down what you just built," he told TIME.

“There were millions of dollars spent here because Colorado was looked at as, ‘We let this happen in Colorado, it could happen in other places or go national.’” Read more.