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Highlights and Takeaways from Day One of the 2014 Hot Issues in Health Care conference underway in Colorado Springs:
Just a day before the most challenging election of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s political career, he released a $26.8 billion spending plan for the state government. Win or lose, Hickenlooper’s plan will set the stage for the legislative session that begins in January.
Our new analysis, Healthy Competition 2014, delves into the role of health policy in the campaign between incumbent Sen. Mark Udall, a Democrat, and his Republican challenger, Rep. Cory Gardner.
It only happens once every two years, and the 2014 version promises to be bigger and better than ever.
Rep. Amy Stephens, a Republican state lawmaker from Monument who is being termed out of the state legislature after eight years, has joined the Colorado Health Institute as an adviser.
Now that the 2014 legislative session has come to an end, exhausted lawmakers are thrilled to finally have a break. But here at the Colorado Health Institute, our work is just beginning.
Many health policy experts extol the virtues of transparency as an effective way to generate competition in the health insurance and health care markets. They expect that consumers who better understand what they are paying for will make informed – what economists call rational - decisions.
With just under two weeks left in the legislative session, new bills are being introduced every day. Notably, a bipartisan group of legislators has introduced a bill to address rising health care costs in Colorado.
Containing health care costs is a hot topic this legislative session, and now there’s a new bill from the chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee that aims to tackle the issue head on.
The January rollout of Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana, has made Colorado the subject of a national viewing party. As the only state with operating retail stores, we are at the center of attention. Still, it may come as a surprise that many marijuana policy decisions are in the hands of local governments.