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I recently bought a new blue car. Yes, I followed the herd and got a Subaru. Yes, I’ve christened it The Papa Smurf. And yes, the car has lots of nifty features – like a system that warns me if I’m about to back into a Dumpster -- that often make me wonder if my car is smarter than I am.
Warm-up time is over for the Colorado legislative session. After a few weeks of ceremonies and getting-to-know-you meetings, lawmakers are starting to vote on a stack of interesting bills.
Next week will be a busy one in health policy.
And we’re off! It’s been a busy first two weeks of the legislative session, full of speeches and ceremony and yes, plenty of new bills. The 120-day session is too quick for a marathon, too long for a sprint — more like a fast-paced racewalk with some pushing and shoving along the way. (There are 1,275 days until the next Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Not that we’re counting.)
Governor John Hickenlooper delivered a State of the State address this morning that was heavy on health policy — starting with a call to modify the Hospital Provider Fee to control costs and help rural hospitals and clinics.
We publish our annual legislative forecast is full of information on the coming debates, from the detailed, wonky policy choices about issues such as prescription drug costs and freestanding emergency departments to the big-league national fights that will reverberate here in Colorado.
CHI’s ninth Hot Issues in Health Care conference wrapped up last week, and since then we’ve been collecting feedback and processing our own reactions. This year’s event — our largest ever! — drew more than 250 attendees
The election is over, but analysts across the globe are still trying to account for Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.
We are waking up to a profoundly different world today. The aftershocks of Donald Trump's victorious outsider bid will be felt deeply around the world, and the health policy realm is no exception.
We spent weeks hashing out our recent financial analysis of ColoradoCare, agonizing over more than 50 different variables and assumptions that fed into our work. I’m not surprised that our analysis of one of those variables — the Hospital Provider Fee — has been one of the more contentious parts of our report.
The election cycle of 2016 will not be known as a season where fact ruled the day. On a near daily basis, we see episodes where ideology supersedes the facts. This is an election season of emotion and heart.