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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.
What does $149 mean to you? School supplies for your kids? Rockies club seats? Monthly utilities?
If you’re an average Coloradan, it’s what you can expect to spend on prescription drugs every year.
The affordability of prescription drugs is something CHI has written about before. More than 10 cents of every health care dollar spent in the state goes to pharmaceuticals. And these costs are growing every year.
It’s hard to keep up with the news. Some notable health bills are moving quickly, while there seems to be a growing stalemate over other bills as parties try to force action on their priority topics.
The National League West-leading Rockies are off to a great start this season, and a new analysis by the Colorado Health Institute shows they aren’t the state’s only recent success story.
Public health funding is facing big cuts in President Trump’s proposed budget. A new analysis by the Colorado Health Institute finds that the president’s proposals – if approved – could place vital public health funding in Colorado at risk.
Five years after marijuana legalization, legislators are focused mostly on business questions for the industry, although they are considering bills about health and law enforcement as well.
So what DO cowboy hats and Colorado’s Commission on Affordable Health Care have in common? You’ll never guess, so I’ll tell you: they’re both interested in telehealth.
Senate Bill 254 takes center stage at the legislature for the next two weeks. You might know it by its refreshingly simple moniker: the Long Bill.
It’s the seventh anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It’s also the day that House Republicans had planned to repeal major parts of the law. The timing isn’t an accident.
The Republican Congress began the year with a confident pledge to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), emboldened by President Trump’s campaign pledge.
But the tune quickly changed, and instead of sounding the victory horns and lighting cigars with the burning remains of the ACA text, GOP lawmakers have struggled over the past months to craft a plan to replace the most significant health policy legislation in the past 50 years.
Then, on Monday, the House GOP released its long-awaited Obamacare replacement plan, titling it the American Health Care Act (AHCA).