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In an interview with 9News, CHI's president and CEO, Michele Lueck, describes how cost shifting has resulted in bigger medical bills for patients with health insurance compared to those without.
Read the story here
The Denver Post quotes a CHI report and blog on the Hickenlooper-Kasich health plan. Read the story here.
7News uses CHI's analysis of federal data on overdoses for a graphic slideshow about where the overdose problem is hitting hardest in Colorado. See the slideshow here.
Advocates for families are growing worried that Congress will stop paying for the Children's Health Insurance Program. The Durango Herald covers the issue and interviews CHI's Jeff Bontrager. Read the story here.
Public News Service examines the role of climate change in public health in a radio story that includes an interview with CHI's Chrissy Esposito. Read or listen to the story here.
The Colorado Springs Gazette quotes CHI's Edmond Toy in a profile of a new hybrid urgent care center/freestanding emergency room. Read the story here.
Colorado Public Radio features CHI's new report "Colorado's Climate and Colorado's Health". CHI's report highlights the link between climate change and human health in Colorado. Read the full story here
CBS4 reports on the preliminary insurance rate requests for Colorado's 2018 individual market and interviews CHI's Joe Hanel. Watch the story here.
Joe Hanel
Communications director
720.382.7093
hanelj@coloradohealthinstitute.org
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