Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman is giving a green light to Gov. John Hickenlooper’s plan to exempt the billion-dollar hospital provider fee program from TABOR. (Brent Lewis, The Denver Post)
Re: Colorado AG gives OK to controversial hospital provider fee move, March 1 news story.
Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican, is to be congratulated for her courage in breaking with her party by refusing to place legal obstruction to the plan to allow the Colorado hospital provider fee to qualify as an enterprise, thereby rendering it exempt from the TABOR spending cap. Meanwhile, Republican Sen. Kevin Grantham equates the state s fiscal system with the operation of a family budget during hard times. We might reasonably expect that as a struggling family ponders the choice between further belt tightening and an income supplement, it would be wise enough to choose the latter. Colorado legislators find themselves in exactly that position and can provide needed revenue for their schools, health care services, and highways by approving legislation to allow the hospital provider fee to be given enterprise status.
Frank Tapy, Denver
This letter was published in the March 8 edition.
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