Our Work
Now that the 2014 legislative session has come to an end, exhausted lawmakers are thrilled to finally have a break. But here at the Colorado Health Institute, our work is just beginning.
Many health policy experts extol the virtues of transparency as an effective way to generate competition in the health insurance and health care markets. They expect that consumers who better understand what they are paying for will make informed – what economists call rational - decisions.
Michele Lueck, our CEO, was a panelist last week during a conference at the University of Pennsylvania looking at early results of a national study tracking the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
In Colorado, a Hispanic adult is nearly twice as likely not to have health insurance as a non-Hispanic adult. That fact led us to research and write our latest brief.
The Colorado Health Institute released our newest brief today - "Analyzing Lower Rates of Health Insurance Among Colorado's Hispanic Adults: Factors Associated with the Disparity."
With just under two weeks left in the legislative session, new bills are being introduced every day. Notably, a bipartisan group of legislators has introduced a bill to address rising health care costs in Colorado.
It has been a busy two weeks at the Colorado Health Institute with the release of our first publication last week on legalized marijuana and a new publication focused on disparities slated for this week.
Containing health care costs is a hot topic this legislative session, and now there’s a new bill from the chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee that aims to tackle the issue head on.
Today marks a milestone for the Colorado Health Institute as we release our first briefing on retail marijuana policy.
The Colorado Health Institute’s new issue brief Early Lessons from Legalized Marijuana: An Analysis of Colorado’s Policy Decisions studies the policy decisions Colorado has made to begin regulating retail marijuana and highlights unanswered questions still facing decision-makers.