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Colorado's legislature is considering a bill that would establish a reinsurance program here. Would it help make insurance more affordable?
The legislature’s billion-dollar scramble is over, and health care missed out.
But public health advocates can still celebrate successes as the Senate gets ready today to take the last substantive votes on the 2018-19 state budget. (It’s House Bill 1322, in case you get the urge to read a 600-page spreadsheet.)
The legislature is making headway on funding for broadband access. That could spell big gains in rural parts of the state — especially for health.
Rural Colorado is short on health care providers. Just ask CHI’s newest research analyst Eli Boone, who grew up in Rifle, Colorado.
But are the state's economic good times here to stay?
For the third year in a row, Colorado legislators are considering bills targeting freestanding emergency rooms.
The legislature is considering five bills aimed at addressing the opioid crisis.
The first of a handful of bills this session attempting to remove the mystery around health care — and perhaps some of the cost in the process — is showing strong momentum.
It’s Valentine’s week, and what better way to celebrate the importance of relationships, communication and compromise than with a look into Colorado’s 2018 legislative session?
Let’s look at some early-session stats:
In the first year terminally ill Coloradans could legally end their lives with the assistance of a prescription drug, Colorado appears to be mirroring the experiences of other states where aid in dying is legal.
In 2017, most of the 69 prescriptions were written for people over the age of 55 struggling with cancer, heart disease or ALS, the degenerative neurological disorder. The vast majority of patients who died after seeking a prescription were white, under hospice care and residents of Front Range cities or suburbs.