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Connect for Health Colorado is preparing a strategic plan that will consider whether the state’s online insurance marketplace should transfer part of its operations to the federal Healthcare.gov website.
The plan is meant to advance a conversation with legislators who asked Connect for Health Colorado’s leaders to think about joining the federal exchange. It doesn’t mean that the federal exchange is the preferred option, spokesman Luke Clarke told the Colorado Health Institute.
Trivia time: How many bills were introduced in Colorado’s General Assembly in 2015?
Allie Morgan, Director of Legislative Services, and Policy Analyst Emily Johnson, author of a new CHI brief on aid-in-dying legislation, provide an update from the House Judiciary Committee's emotional 10-hour hearing this week.
This new animation from the Colorado Health Institute demonstrates how the Hospital Provider Fee works and the side effects it bring to the state budget.
This is a big week for backers and opponents of aid in dying, the movement to allow terminally ill adults to obtain medication to end their lives. Identical bills that seek to enact the “Colorado End-of-life Options Act” will both have hearings this week.
Legislators turned their attention to Connect for Health Colorado on January 21 when the marketplace’s leaders presented their annual report to a joint meeting of all three health committees.
The hearing was the highlight of action in health policy so far in this young legislative session, but the year is just getting under way.
We’re off and running in the 2016 legislative session, and lawmakers aren’t wasting any time. As of Monday, 160 bills had already been introduced. Here’s a look at some we’ll be watching.
Our own mortality is hard to think about. It’s an emotional, complex and often painful topic. But in past year, more policymakers, advocates and health care providers have started having difficult conversations on a controversial end of life option.
As state legislatures around the country begin to tackle their 2016 health care agendas, network adequacy will be a key point of debate
Governor John Hickenlooper on Thursday set the stage for a public battle over the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) that has been brewing for years.