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This new animation from the Colorado Health Institute demonstrates how the Hospital Provider Fee works and the side effects it bring to the state budget.
When Maggie Bailey and I first analyzed drug overdose deaths in Colorado counties over the past 13 years, we were shocked by the dramatic changes revealed by the time-lapse map we created to present the data.
This is a big week for backers and opponents of aid in dying, the movement to allow terminally ill adults to obtain medication to end their lives. Identical bills that seek to enact the “Colorado End-of-life Options Act” will both have hearings this week.
Legislators turned their attention to Connect for Health Colorado on January 21 when the marketplace’s leaders presented their annual report to a joint meeting of all three health committees.
The hearing was the highlight of action in health policy so far in this young legislative session, but the year is just getting under way.
We’re off and running in the 2016 legislative session, and lawmakers aren’t wasting any time. As of Monday, 160 bills had already been introduced. Here’s a look at some we’ll be watching.
Our own mortality is hard to think about. It’s an emotional, complex and often painful topic. But in past year, more policymakers, advocates and health care providers have started having difficult conversations on a controversial end of life option.
As state legislatures around the country begin to tackle their 2016 health care agendas, network adequacy will be a key point of debate
Governor John Hickenlooper on Thursday set the stage for a public battle over the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) that has been brewing for years.
"If you’re feeling sad today, just remember the world is over 4 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie.”
The word “health” probably brings to mind a visit to the doctor, health insurance or a prescription for medicine. But many other things influence good health.
For instance, the physical environment matters. A lot.