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The health bill is delayed, but it's far from dead. Here's what we are watching.
The Colorado Health Institute’s team of experts examines the Senate health bill to project impacts on Colorado.
This graphic shows how the House and Senate versions of the ACA replacement measure up against each other and the law they seek to overturn.
While the Trump Administration aims to make large Medicaid cuts, Colorado lawmakers are taking a different approach.
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published new estimates of the American Health Care Act’s impact. The ACHA is expected to save $119 billion over a decade but leave 23 million more Americans uninsured by 2026.
Legislators opted for small changes to medical licensing in their 2017 session, but the Senate spiked a plan to institute criminal background checks for providers.
Several bills were introduced this session to increase consumer protection and provide clarification regarding licenses for professionals and medical equipment suppliers.
At the beginning of the legislative session 120 days ago, it looked like Colorado hospitals had been dealt a bad hand. Legislators were gunning at the freestanding emergency rooms several hospital groups have been opening around the Front Range, the lieutenant governor wanted to open hospitals’ finances to public inspection, and worst of all, they were facing a $260 million funding cut through plans to shrink the Hospital Provider Fee.
Coloradans are angry about health care costs, and it’s easy to see why. The cost of care is steadily climbing and everyone wants someone to blame. At the state legislature, insurance companies seem to have taken a lot of that blame.
Today's amendments to the American Health Care Act do nothing to change the most significant part of the bill — a massive rollback of Medicaid.
Colorado’s lawmakers will not be doing anything more this year to help rural insurance customers pay for their expensive policies or to examine how much money hospitals are making.