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The latest CHAS issue brief, Young Invincibles? Why Young Adults Have Colorado's Highest Uninsured Rate, analyzes the health insurance status of Colorado's young adults and discusses how these findings can inform ACA implementation.
Each year, CHI publishes estimates of the number of kids who are eligible but not enrolled (EBNE) in both Medicaid and the Child Health Plan Plus. The latest estimates, using data from 2011, are available here in three new publications.
The Colorado Health Institute today released a 2013 update to our Colorado Children’s Health Insurance Status series. Before you dive into the new data, here are answers to a few frequntly asked questions.
Colorado will see sweeping changes beginning in late 2013 in how people obtain health insurance because of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Change inevitably represents opportunity – and anxiety. This presentation provides an overview of the anticipated changes as well as details about questions facing small businesses, individuals, seniors and others.
Medicaid expansion in Colorado gains governor's approval.
About 29,000 Colorado children received health care services at one of 45 SBHCs during the 2010-11 school year, up from 27,500 the year before.
It turns out that the reasons Coloradans report for visiting an emergency department are complicated and traverse issues of access, coverage and perception.
We're in the home stretch of the 2012 election, and CHI's focus is on what the election means for health policy in Colorado. A new Kaiser Family Foundation study estimates the impact of a Romney-like plan on Colorado's Medicaid program.
What do you get when you put a bunch of health policy wonks, some data dudes and about a hundred of Colorado’s smartest and most creative philanthropists, lawmakers, nonprofit leaders, educators and health care advocates in one room?
Nerdy fun, we like to call it.
How many Coloradans are uninsured? CHI's latest fact sheet explores the differences between three recent estimates of uninsured Coloradans: the 2011 Current Population Survey, the 2011 American Community Survey, and the 2011 Colorado Health Access Survey.