By Quentin Young | editor
“Despite the loss of the enhanced premium tax credits, we are doing everything we can to keep health insurance prices down so Coloradans can afford access to health care.”
— Michael Conway, Colorado insurance commissioner
The website of Connect for Health Colorado, the state’s health insurance marketplace, is pictured on Aug. 27, 2025. (Photo by Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline)
By Sara Wilson
Coloradans who buy their health insurance on the individual market, rather than getting coverage through their employer, will see around a 10% increase in their premiums next year, the state’s Department of Insurance announced Tuesday. The state’s average is less than the 15% national median, but it differs based on region. People in the Grand Junction area will experience a 15.5% increase, while those in the Eastern Plains are on the lower end with a 5.9% increase.
Children’s Hospital Colorado is pictured on June 23, 2026, at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colorado. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
By Lindsey Toomer
A Denver judge shut down a motion for contempt against Children’s Hospital Colorado that alleged it was not in compliance with an order that required the hospital to reinstate gender-affirming care for minors. Children’s Hospital Colorado stopped offering gender-affirming care to minors in January due to threats from the Trump administration. Four families sued Children’s Hospital after it initially stopped offering care to their children.
A Flock camera monitors passing traffic on Sept. 2, 2026 in Miami. The state department of transportation said this month it will remove license plate readers, such as Flock cameras, from all state highways, citing an increase in reports of misuse of the systems. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
By Ariana Figueroa
A vast and growing network of artificial intelligence-driven Flock cameras could violate constitutional privacy rights, U.S. senators on a Judiciary Committee subcommittee said during a Wednesday hearing. GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, the chair of the Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee, said the point of the hearing was to find out “what is going on with the expanding surveillance network that appears to be going coast to coast in this country.” Hawley said he invited the CEO of Flock Safety to testify, but he did not appear.
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