US News: Polis Focuses on Health Care in Address to State Lawmakers

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis urged lawmakers Thursday to join him in combating income inequality in a state where an economic boom has left too many behind, and he placed a particular emphasis on healthcare costs as crucial to that fight.

Delivering his second state of the state address to a Legislature in the control of fellow Democrats, Polis threw his weight behind a drive to create a state-administered public option for health insurance.