Legislators looking at ways to bring down high health insurance costs in the high country

As a body, the 100-member General Assembly has paying for highways on its mind, but a group of high country legislators has the high cost of health insurance atop its priority list.

Kevin Fixler reported in the Summit Daily this week that several pieces of legislation are in the works to address "cost, choice, quality and transparency" with built-in consumer protections.

"Folks literally can't pay their insurance premiums and have got to have something immediately," Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush, a Democrat from Steamboat Springs, told Fixler.

Rep. Millie Hamner, a Democrat from Dillon, predicted. "There is going to be a lot of movement on these issues this session."

Republican Rep. Bob Rankin, of Carbondale, Democratic Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette