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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.
Colorado’s lawmakers will not be doing anything more this year to help rural insurance customers pay for their expensive policies or to examine how much money hospitals are making.
What does $149 mean to you? School supplies for your kids? Rockies club seats? Monthly utilities?
If you’re an average Coloradan, it’s what you can expect to spend on prescription drugs every year.
The affordability of prescription drugs is something CHI has written about before. More than 10 cents of every health care dollar spent in the state goes to pharmaceuticals. And these costs are growing every year.
It’s hard to keep up with the news. Some notable health bills are moving quickly, while there seems to be a growing stalemate over other bills as parties try to force action on their priority topics.
Public health funding is facing big cuts in President Trump’s proposed budget. A new analysis by the Colorado Health Institute finds that the president’s proposals – if approved – could place vital public health funding in Colorado at risk.
Five years after marijuana legalization, legislators are focused mostly on business questions for the industry, although they are considering bills about health and law enforcement as well.
So what DO cowboy hats and Colorado’s Commission on Affordable Health Care have in common? You’ll never guess, so I’ll tell you: they’re both interested in telehealth.
Senate Bill 254 takes center stage at the legislature for the next two weeks. You might know it by its refreshingly simple moniker: the Long Bill.