Colorado's public option is (the big) one of many healthcare fights lawmakers will have this year

The year isn’t even a month old and fights over health care costs have already ignited Fourth of July-caliber fireworks. With tensions “already pretty high,” Allie Morgan, the director of legislative services for the non-partisan Colorado Health Institute, said there’s one thing you can take to the bank. “Hospitals versus the state is going to be one of the headlines, if not the headline of the [legislative] session.”