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Now that the number of uninsured people seems to be dropping, another barrier to health care is getting attention – underinsurance.
In 2013, more than 17 percent of uninsured Coloradans said they did not know how to get coverage – a three percentage point increase from 2009.
We often hear that people lack health insurance because it’s too expensive. But across the state, many uninsured residents say they don’t have insurance not because they can’t afford it, but because they simply don’t need it.
The second Connect for Health Colorado open enrollment got underway on Saturday, November 15. So far, it has attracted less attention than last year — and that may be a good sign.
In some regions of Colorado, one of four people strongly disagree that the health care system meets the needs of their families.
Colorado is home to 413,271 veterans, 7.8 percent of the state population.
The big question of the hour – not to mention the day, the month and the year – is how to encourage the hundreds of thousands of Coloradans who remain uninsured to sign up for health insurance during open enrollment beginning November 15.
The world of health policy is full of numbers, but few are as closely watched as the figures the Colorado Division of Insurance released Monday: the new health insurance prices the division approved for 2015.
September brings the analysts at the Colorado Health Institute many joys – beautiful weather, the changing of aspen leaves and new estimates of the uninsured.
How many Coloradans are uninsured? CHI’s fact sheet discusses three recent estimates (the Current Population Survey, the American Community Survey, and the Colorado Health Access Survey) and explains why they differ.