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As the 2012 session of the Colorado Legislature gets underway, the Colorado Health Institute is closely tracking all things health policy over at the Capitol.
As a twenty-something, I get my health policy news from a variety of sources: Twitter, daily email digests, Kaiser Health News, blogs, and even the hard-copy New York Times on Sunday morning.
While the Colorado legislature has much to deliberate this session, including economic development, job creation and education reform, one of the top items on its list will be reducing health care expenditures.
Both proponents and opponents of the federal health care reform law are awaiting the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the law’s individual mandate.
With the recent focus on the aging population, long-term services and supports (LTSS, formerly long-term care) are getting their day in the spotlight. People are beginning to take a hard look at this behemoth system that in Colorado covers three departments, with endless regulations and multiple payer sources. Individuals of all types access myriad services within the LTSS system and utilize several routes of entry.
An overview of the Medicaid program in Colorado,the growth in enrollment and costs, and options to contain costs, including efforts underway in other states.
Eighteen months after the federal health reform law was signed into law by President Obama, the debate, controversy and media coverage surrounding it haven’t slowed a bit.
I’ve been working for CHI for slightly over a year, and I am just beginning to feel comfortable with the Colorado health lexicon.
The break between legislative sessions offers a good time to step back for some historical perspective.