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The election is over, but analysts across the globe are still trying to account for Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.
The 2016 election was a consequential one for health policy, from the presidential election to statehouse races to ballot initiatives.
We are waking up to a profoundly different world today. The aftershocks of Donald Trump's victorious outsider bid will be felt deeply around the world, and the health policy realm is no exception.
The burning question about tobacco and its future in Colorado
We spent weeks hashing out our recent financial analysis of ColoradoCare, agonizing over more than 50 different variables and assumptions that fed into our work. I’m not surprised that our analysis of one of those variables — the Hospital Provider Fee — has been one of the more contentious parts of our report.
Colorado voters were asked in November 2016 whether to adopt ColoradoCare, a revolutionary system to provide universal health coverage to all the state’s residents. CHI released a three-part series to analyze the proposal.
The election cycle of 2016 will not be known as a season where fact ruled the day. On a near daily basis, we see episodes where ideology supersedes the facts. This is an election season of emotion and heart.
Third in a three-part blog series on the impact of mental health policy changes in Colorado following the Aurora theater mass shootings four years ago.
The policy approaches in Connecticut after the Sandy Hook school shootings - five months after Colorado's Aurora theater shootings - can provide guidance to Colorado and other states that are working to provide better access to mental health intervention services.
First in a three-part blog series on the impact of mental health policy changes in Colorado following the Aurora theater mass shooting four years ago.
I was in Australia on July 20, 2012, studying community mental health and health psychology.
In a legislature divided, under the stormy skies of presidential politics, it’s no wonder that barely half of introduced bills survived this year. While there were certainly successes, health proposals didn’t fare any better against an array of predators.