What Colorado’s Public Health Insurance Push Means for Democrats

Colorado lawmakers will have to decide whether the state’s health-care costs are so high they warrant that kind of public interference, says Michele Lueck, president of the Colorado Health Institute, a nonpartisan research group. “This is kind of the classic example of, What’s the appropriate role of government intervention and regulation?” she says. “Are things so bad, are they so unaffordable for consumers, that the government has the right to intervene?”