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2017’s Hot Issues in Health conference confronted divides and sought to bridge the gaps. We talked about everything from the managed care model for Medicaid and behavioral health integration to the role of competition and what you — as a health care consumer and policymaker — can do when navigating an overwhelming and expensive health care system.
An Analysis of Affordable Care Act Tax Penalty Data
The Denver Post invited CHI to write the centerpiece article for a special Perspective section titled Fixing Obamacare.
This has been a year of failed attempts to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but the fight is not over. On Friday, the Trump administration released new rules that could spell big changes for at least 53,000 Colorado women.
The regulations overturn the Obama-era mandate requiring employers offering health insurance benefits to include birth control in the coverage (with limited exceptions). Under the proposed changes, any company — large or small, public or private — can request a moral or religious exemption to the mandate and stop covering birth control.
For the first time in nearly 11 months, it’s probably safe for advocates of health coverage to exhale. At least for a moment.
Back in July, the last time Republicans in the U.S. Senate nearly repealed major portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) but failed at the last minute, the Colorado Health Institute published a blog title “Obituary for the Undead.” The blog warned that the repeal bill was still alive and could be taken up again at any moment.
State officials have announced that prices on Colorado’s individual market for 2018 health plans will rise an average of 26.7 percent.
The Affordable Care Act stabilization plan offered by Democratic governor John Hickenlooper and Ohio’s Republican governor, John Kasich, falls squarely into the “keep and fix” camp.
A plan by a bipartisan group of governors to stabilize Affordable Care Act insurance markets offers promising ideas, but it’s not the long-term answer to the country’s health care problems.
The debate over the Affordable Care Act has overshadowed another important congressional decision: the September 30 deadline to renew the Children’s Health Insurance Program.