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Solutions to prescription drug prices eluded legislators in 2018.
The 2018 legislative session was surprisingly productive given split-party control, a looming election and various controversies about sexual harassment. We analyze what happened in CHI’s annual wrap-up report, Legislation in Review, published today.Legislators had no shortage of ideas. As a group, they introduced 721 bills — the most in nearly 15 years. And despite the politics, they voted in bipartisan fashion to pass 432 of them for a success rate of 60 percent.
Last year, 17,000 Coloradans received behavioral health services that they wouldn’t have otherwise. That’s thanks to $3.9 million from the Colorado Health Access Fund, administered by The Denver Foundation.
The 2018 legislative session has come to a close. As we make sense of the last-minute action, which continued in both chambers all the way until 11:59 p.m. on Day 120, we’re thinking about how prescient (or completely wrong) we were with our predictions before Day One.
We’re no fortune tellers, but we think we did OK. Let’s take a look at five predictions from our January legislative forecast report, A Steep Climb to Common Ground:
CHI's Allie Morgan reports from the floor of Colorado's House of Representatives.
Bills related to climate change in the legislature this session haven't made it far.
Colorado's suicide rate is one of the nation's highest. Legislators have considered several bills related to preventing suicides this year.
Introducing CHI's 2017 Access to Care Index.
Colorado's legislature has introduced a number of bills involving commercial health insurance in 2018. How have they fared?
Team CHI traveled throughout Colorado to identify the best ideas and programs for preventing youth from using and abusing substances for a new report commissioned by the Office of Behavioral Health.