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Colorado fell from fourth to eighth in the nation for how well it supports seniors and those with disabilities, according to the 2017 AARP Long-Term Services and Support Score Card.
While this year’s session threatened to collapse at times and was full of its share of finger-pointing and partisan politics, Democrats and Republicans managed to strike big deals on big issues.
More than half a million Coloradans live in a county with few or no treatment options for people suffering from opioid addiction.
The nation is in the midst of an epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose deaths, and Colorado is no exception. Medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, is a proven way to fight this epidemic. It’s an evidence-based approach recommended by a wide range of respected scientific sources for the treatment of addiction to opioids, a category of drug that derives from the opium poppy and includes prescription pain pills as well as heroin.
While the Trump Administration aims to make large Medicaid cuts, Colorado lawmakers are taking a different approach.
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published new estimates of the American Health Care Act’s impact. The ACHA is expected to save $119 billion over a decade but leave 23 million more Americans uninsured by 2026.
Legislators opted for small changes to medical licensing in their 2017 session, but the Senate spiked a plan to institute criminal background checks for providers.
Several bills were introduced this session to increase consumer protection and provide clarification regarding licenses for professionals and medical equipment suppliers.
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At the beginning of the legislative session 120 days ago, it looked like Colorado hospitals had been dealt a bad hand. Legislators were gunning at the freestanding emergency rooms several hospital groups have been opening around the Front Range, the lieutenant governor wanted to open hospitals’ finances to public inspection, and worst of all, they were facing a $260 million funding cut through plans to shrink the Hospital Provider Fee.
Coloradans are angry about health care costs, and it’s easy to see why. The cost of care is steadily climbing and everyone wants someone to blame. At the state legislature, insurance companies seem to have taken a lot of that blame.
Today's amendments to the American Health Care Act do nothing to change the most significant part of the bill — a massive rollback of Medicaid.