GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. –
Medical insurance on the individual market is set to change. Wednesday, Governor Jared Polis announced that the federal government signed the reinsurance program, which he says will lower insurance premiums.
The state of Colorado will now pool together money from the federal government, insurance companies, and hospitals to help lower the cost of the inflated individual market.
Today KREX sat down with Christine Bogott, a member of the Colorado State Association of Health Underwriters, to speak about what the rule change could mean for the Western Slope.