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Family of 4 with CrowdHealth October 2021 $875 October 2026 $555

A husband and wife with four kids will spend $3-4,000 and more per month on medical insurance now, and it buys nothing but the right to pay more when you actually use it. This is an outrage. More outrageous, there is hardly any political talk about this fixing this problem even though the fix is readily at hand. Unsustainable.

I called to cancel my health insurance because I couldn't afford the premium anymore. The rep asked why I wanted to cancel. I told her I'm paying $685 a month for a family plan with a $9,000 deductible. That's $8,220 a year before I've even paid for a single doctor's visit, prescription, or emergency room bill. So if someone in my family gets seriously sick, I'm still looking at thousands of dollars in medical expenses on top of the premiums I've already been paying all year. I asked her what exactly I'm supposed to do with a plan like that. She explained that the policy was designed to help cover eligible medical expenses after I met my deductible. I told her I understood how insurance works. What I don't understand is how a family can pay more than $8,000 a year for coverage and still be terrified of getting sick. She didn't have an answer. WE'VE CREATED A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM WHERE PEOPLE ARE PAYING THOUSANDS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM MEDICAL BILLS THEY STILL CAN'T AFFORD.

Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. Historic drought. Lowest snowpack in decades. Raging wildfires. It’s well past time we go all-in. Our communities need resources to combat the effects of climate change. But we can’t just treat the symptoms. We have to tackle the crisis at its source by cutting emissions and accelerating the transition to clean energy.

Colorado and Texas have taken very different approaches to personal freedoms - as in Colorado actually supports freedom. Colorado protects access to reproductive healthcare and recreational cannabis, while Texas has been going in the opposite direction.

Mamdani says he wants to keep non-NYC residents out of city government run grocery stores by making sure shoppers use an ID: “We are looking to make sure that we target New Yorkers … sort of a library card-esque thing.”

Fever coach Stephanie White is asked her stance on males playing in women's sports. "I wouldn't really say that I'm educated enough from a scientific standpoint. I don't ever believe that exclusion is the answer." She then opens up on "frustration" over the debate being tied to the team lately, as they are playing their second game in a row with a rally celebrating Sophie Cunningham's stance for protecting women's sports.

NEW: At a recent meeting, the JeffCo school board debated ways to smooth over distrust with voters for a $133 million property tax ask in November. completecolorado.com/2026/07…

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