Our Work
The Colorado Health Institute is closely monitoring developments in Congress and researching how federal reforms will affect Colorado. We call our effort Re: ACA.
Attempts to repeal the ACA have failed — for now — in the U.S. Senate. Here are a few ways state and federal lawmakers can shore up markets shaken by this year’s political drama.
All this year, it seems like I’ve been reading obituaries for bills that won’t die.
The Obamacare era is over! The House Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal is dead! Sen. John McCain cast the deciding vote to repeal the ACA! Wait, McCain cast the deciding vote to save the ACA!
My colleagues at the Colorado Health Institute and I have even written some of these obits ourselves.
I found my job at the Colorado Health Institute by typing “health policy Colorado” into Google.
CHI was the first search result. And in August 2013 it was looking for a research assistant.
The job description fit my skill set, and CHI seemed like the type of organization I wanted to work for. Most importantly, I had the same positive gut reaction that brought me from Boston to Denver after visiting my best friend at the University of Denver months earlier.
It’s been nearly four years since that lucky Google search.
Every other year, the CHI office experiences a surge of activity in September. We hustle back from Labor Day weekend to put the finishing touches on our favorite statewide questionnaire: the Colorado Health Access Survey (CHAS).
Average requested price hike of 27 percent for 2018 follows this year’s 20 percent increase
Denver Health’s Bill Burman spotlights the failures of the U.S. health system and why he’s optimistic that change is possible.
It’s a new day, with a new Senate bill.
And the same story.
The first version of a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was introduced early this year, and ever since that day, we at the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) have encouraged people to pay special attention to Medicaid. That’s still the case for the latest version of the bill that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released today.
Colorado’s Medicaid program — called Health First Colorado — provides health coverage for upwards of one fourth of Colorado’s population. And it’s about to undergo some major changes.
The evolution of the ACC. Since 2011, Colorado has been grappling with a seemingly paradoxical question: How do you improve the health of Medicaid members while reducing costs? Colorado’s response is called the Accountable Care Collaborative (ACC).
Analyzing the Next Phase of Medicaid’s Accountable Care Collaborative in Colorado