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Connect for Health Colorado is preparing a strategic plan that will consider whether the state’s online insurance marketplace should transfer part of its operations to the federal Healthcare.gov website.
The plan is meant to advance a conversation with legislators who asked Connect for Health Colorado’s leaders to think about joining the federal exchange. It doesn’t mean that the federal exchange is the preferred option, spokesman Luke Clarke told the Colorado Health Institute.
The results of the 2016 Colorado Health Report Card, released today, mark a decade of progress and challenges on the way to making Colorado the healthiest state.
Trivia time: How many bills were introduced in Colorado’s General Assembly in 2015?
People young and old, urban and rural, are making it clear that they want their surroundings to promote healthy living, not discourage it. And builders are taking notice.
That trend is behind CHI’s continuing look into the connection between health and the “built environment.”
With the big Broncos celebration tomorrow, the Colorado Health Institute will be doing all that we can to finish our work to watch the champions parade the streets of Denver. Here’s a look at what’s going on this week, along with several recent publications you don’t want to miss.
Allie Morgan, Director of Legislative Services, and Policy Analyst Emily Johnson, author of a new CHI brief on aid-in-dying legislation, provide an update from the House Judiciary Committee's emotional 10-hour hearing this week.
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.