insurance

The measure aims to help doctors get insurance approval to treat patients.

The proposal would require insurers to provide doctors with more information upfront.

"When everyone in our community is healthy, our state will be healthy, and our nation will be healthy."

“We’re in the middle of a health care crisis, right, but the overall impact on the health care system has been to reduce people using health care.”

Her employer offered only a high-deductible health plan; that meant she'd have to pay up to $6,000 out of pocket each year. Advocates for patients say this sort of underinsurance is snatching lives.