DENVER (AP) — Bipartisan agreement on health care? It didn't last long in Colorado.
A proposal to set up a state health insurance exchange, a market in which individuals and small businesses could pool together for lower premiums, seemed to go on life support Thursday even as a Senate committee approved the measure after hours of testimony from doctors, nurses and businesses supporting the idea.
The shift came after a Republican backing the exchange, House Republican Leader Amy Stephens, sent a letter to her colleagues in the Senate suggesting an amendment that could pull the plug on an exchange.
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