Health care public option debated at NoCo forum

LOVELAND — Colorado legislators will see a public option for health care when the session ramps up in January, but it would be a mistake to call the plan a single-payer, Medicare-for-all plan.

Instead, it’s a plan that is being written after 42 stakeholder meetings involving hospitals, medical providers, insurers and business groups and is described by the executive director of the Colorado Health Care Policy and Financing division of state government as “a plan built by Coloradans, for Coloradans.”

Still, opponents were circling in the crowd at the annual Regional Issues Summit produced by the…