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Colorado's House Health & Human Services Committee advanced a bill requiring insurers to treat non-opioid pain drugs on par with opioids over unanimous Republican objection, then held a contentious measure to shield rare-disease and plasma drugs from the state's price-review board for three weeks after hours of emotional testimony.
Key Actions
·Parity for Non-Opioid Pain Management DrugsPassed
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Notable Quotes
“My personal story was I almost OD'd and had to go to the ER because I was using non opioid methods, because I was denied for over three years for opioid management.”
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Votes
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (8)Lindsay Gilchrist, Sheila Lieder, Regina English, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart
No (5)Mary Bradfield, Carlos Barron, Brandi Bradley, Dusty Johnson, Dan Woog
Laid overAction
Yes (11)Carlos Barron, Mary Bradfield, Brandi Bradley, Lisa Feret, Eliza Hamrick, Dusty Johnson, Karen McCormick, Gretchen Rydin, Katie Stewart, Sheila Lieder, Lindsay Gilchrist
Excused (2)Regina English, Dan Woog
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Five minutes ago. The Health and Human Services Committee will come to order. Mr. Shadoom, please call the roll. Representatives of our own. Here. Bradfield. Yes. Here. Bradley. Here. English. Here. Bray. Here. Amrick. Here. Johnson. Here. McCormick. Here. Ryden. Here. Stewart. Here. Woog. Here. Leader. Present. Madam Chair. Here. Okay, welcome everyone. Than thank you for your patience and sorry I was a little bit late today. We are hearing two bills this afternoon, Senate Bill 006 and Senate Bill 140. And we'll have two minutes for witness testimony with 10 minute panels. And it looks like we have our wonderful sponsors here and we'll get started right away, especially since they are JBC folks that need to get back to their other jobs. So with that sponsors, tell us about your bill. Who would like to go first? Representative Taggart. Thank you, Madam Chair. It's probably best that I talk about the background because the expertise is sitting to my left. For those of you that know me, I'm more of a business executive than I am in this particular field. But there's some things that I think to set a background that are really important about SB…
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