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The Colorado Health Institute (CHI) today released an analysis of the 2016 health insurance rates approved by the state’s Division of Insurance.

The rates will rise an average of seven percent next year compared with a 1.2 percent hike in 2015.

CHI’s takeaways include:

The Colorado Health Institute is going on the road, and we'd like to meet you — wherever you live in Colorado.

The Coloradoan reports on a presentation that Colorado Health Institute Policy Analyst Allie Morgan gave in Fort Collins. Read the story here.

The Denver Business Journal cites the Colorado Health Institute report Reaching Our Peak 2015: Scorecard for a Healthier Colorado. Read the story here.

The Fort Morgan Times reports on factors identified by the Colorado Health Institute as the best community-level predictors of whether residents in a given ZIP code are likely to be uninsured. Read the story here.

The Durango Herald spoke with Jeff Bontrager, the Colorado Health Institute’s Director of Research on Coverage and Access. Read the story here.

Colorado has made a good deal of progress in creating a healthier state, but has also run into obstacles on its climb to better health, according to a new report from the Colorado Health Institute.

 “Reaching our Peak 2015: Scorecard for a Healthier Colorado”  analyzes the impact of programs, policies and politics in five areas — schools, communities, the workplace, places where we age, and the health care delivery system.

This year’s “Reaching our Peak” is the third annual look by the Colorado Health Institute at  the state’s progress in those categories.

KUSA reports on the 2015 Colorado Health Access Survey. See the story here.