Colorado GOP launches campaign against insurance exchange

DENVER -- Colorado Republicans launched their opening attack on the health insurance exchange Tuesday.

Just don't call it an attack on Obamacare.

Colorado Republicans sounded strikingly different than in years past when talking about their proposal to abolish the state-run health insurance exchange, called Connect For Health Colorado.

Instead of tying the exchange to the federal health care law, or Obamacare, Republicans bristled at suggestions that the move aims to undo it.

The bill "does not repeal anyone's insurance policies," insisted Sen. Jim Smallwood, a Parker Republican and insurance agent who sponsored the bill.

"It's not an attempt to indict former President Obama or his legacy.

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