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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.
Third in a three-part blog series on the impact of mental health policy changes in Colorado following the Aurora theater mass shootings four years ago.
The policy approaches in Connecticut after the Sandy Hook school shootings - five months after Colorado's Aurora theater shootings - can provide guidance to Colorado and other states that are working to provide better access to mental health intervention services.
First in a three-part blog series on the impact of mental health policy changes in Colorado following the Aurora theater mass shooting four years ago.
I was in Australia on July 20, 2012, studying community mental health and health psychology.
In a legislature divided, under the stormy skies of presidential politics, it’s no wonder that barely half of introduced bills survived this year. While there were certainly successes, health proposals didn’t fare any better against an array of predators.
As the legislative session raced to a close, the tense final votes were like a down-to-the-wire basketball championship: a lot of drama building to an unsurprising ending.
It’d be nice to have a time-turner right about now. Legislators are working overtime to get through still undecided bills, and of all the magical things from Harry Potter’s universe, a pendant to increase the number of work hours in a day might sound the most appealing.
This week’s big news: The proposal to change the Hospital Provider Fee to an enterprise fund has passed the House. But its future depends on which Senate committee gets to hear it first. That will be determined by Senate President Bill Cadman (R), who has opposed converting the fee.
Thirteen weekdays (and three more CHI blogs) remain in this legislative session. Nearly 650 bills have been introduced, and at last count, fewer than 100 have crossed the finish line and received a signature from Governor Hickenlooper.