Legislature mulls new review panel for managed care

Health-care reform isn’t an issue in this year’s presidential election as it was four years ago, but that hasn’t limited the number of bills going through the state’s General Assembly. Maintaining an average established over the past few years, approximately 60 bills have been introduced dealing with health care.
Even though the number of bills has remained fairly consistent, the attitude toward managed care has changed over the past three of four years, said Bill Hopkins, the Greeley-based government relations director for State Farm Insurance Co. in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
He said the medical community’s original stance of “We…