Colorado Non-Profit & Publicly-held Hospitals Net Assets Up 83% Since 2008 Financial Meltdown ..... The Main Reason Health Insurance Premiums Are Now Reasonable on Health Insurance Exchange

From a review of the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) and financial statements in SEC filings, I found 5 Non-Profit Hospital Organizations and 2 Publicly-held Hospital and Related Companies all headquartered in the State of Colorado with Net Assets (i.e. Financial Strength or Total Assets minus Total Liabilities) at the most recent date reported of more than $400 mil each.

Below here are the Net Assets of these 7 Colorado Hospital and Related Organizations at both the most recent reported date and also at the end of the Fiscal Year which included the late 2008 US Financial Meltdown:

							Net	Net
							Assets	Assets
						FYE	FYE	%
						Balance	Balance	Increase
						Sheet	Sheet	Since
				Most		Date	Date	FYE
			Most	Recent		Including	Including	Including
			Recent	Balance		2008-09	2008-09	2008-09
			Balance	Sheet		US	US	US
	City	State	Sheet	Net		Financial	Financial	Financial
US Hospital Organization	HQs	HQs	Date	Assets		Meltdown	Meltdown	Meltdown
				mil $s			mil $s
Catholic Health Initiatives	Inverness	CO	Sep 14	9,275		Jun 09	5,505	68%
SCL Health Systems	Denver	CO	Sep 14	2,328		Dec 08	2,263	3%
U Colorado Health	Ft. Collins	CO	Sep 14	2,171		Feb 09	1,172	85%
Children's Hospital Colorado	Aurora	CO	Sep 14	1,333		Dec 08	678	97%
Denver Health & Hosp Authority	Denver	CO	Dec 14	461		Dec 08	406	14%
DaVita Healthcare Partners (Publicly-held Co)	Denver	CO	Dec 14	5,360		Dec 08	1,827	193%
Envision Healthcare (Publicly-held Co)	Greenwood Village	CO	Sep 14	1,715		Dec 08	539	218%
Total all 7				22,643			12,390	83%

As you can see from the above chart, the Total Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these 7 largest Colorado Hospital Organizations totaled a massive $22,643 mil at the most recently reported date, up a huge 83% from such Total Net Asset amounts of $12,390 mil at their fiscal year ends which included the 2008-09 US Financial Meltdown.

With such an impressive Colorado Hospital Net Asset percentage increase, a key beneficiary of this will be Colorado citizens who have elected or will be electing to buy health insurance on the Health Insurance Exchange.  This superb Net Asset growth has given and will continue to give these Colorado Hospitals the financial flexibility to moderate their pricing for hospital and other health care procedures in their negotiations with health insurance companies which ultimately determines what insurance premium prices are set at by health insurance companies on the Health Insurance Exchange.