Our Work
The latest economic forecast from the legislative council revealed that the General Assembly is expected to have 6 percent more to spend in FY 2013-14 than what they budgeted for FY 2012-13.
Adults represent the vast majority—about 83 percent—of Colorado’s uninsured. Digging deeper, CHI finds wide variation within that group of uninsured adults.
Health care policy during the 2012 legislature may have lacked the pyrotechnical drama of civil unions and special sessions. But much good and thoughtful work was done, particularly in rethinking how to make existing programs work better for clients and taxpayers.
The difficulties in the last days of the session should not detract from the hard work and the successful efforts to create innovative solutions to improve health services in Colorado.
More than 120,000 Coloradans are now enrolled in the ACC, and the first savings report is due this June.
While we await the Supreme Court’s constitutional prognosis of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), I’ve been reflecting on how – if at all – the past can inform us about the future.
It’s fitting that the last bill passed by the House Health and Environment Committee embodies one of the prevailing themes of this legislative session: improving the efficiency and effectiveness of government.
How many adults without dependent children will become eligible for Medicaid under the CHCAA expansion on May 1, 2012?
Unless policies are implemented to increase the uptake of private long- term care insurance or to make it more affordable, the already strained Medicaid long-term care system will be overwhelmed with users.
HB 12-1300 would continue and improve the Colorado Professional Review Act (CPRA), which governs the process that physicians use to review the quality of patient care provided by other physicians.