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Registered dental hygienist Crystal Mecham made Colorado dental history on April 12 at Bea Underwood Elementary in Parachute.
On that Wednesday, she treated a third-grader’s decaying tooth with an Interim Therapeutic Restoration (ITR) filling.
Crystal Mecham
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.
Colorado legislators flopped and flailed, and just when it looked like all was lost, they achieved one of the most productive sessions in years.
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.
An Analysis of Colorado’s Rural and Urban School-Based Health Centers