Multiple Media Outlets Feature CHI Maps Showing COVID Disparities by Census Tract

CHI’s analysis and interactive maps showing data from the Colorado Health Observation Regional Data Service (CHORDS) were a big hit this week among major media outlets along the front range. Articles covered the analysis and the findings – including the high rates of COVID in neighborhoods where residents had lower education levels and higher concentrations of non-English speakers and people of color.

Colorado ’public option’ bill faces more changes, confusion and conflict

Denver7 covers the debate over the Colorado Option insurance plan in the state legislature and quotes CHI's Joe Hanel. 

“It turned into something that was not classically a public option, but was still a really big, or one of the biggest, ideas that we’ve seen in lowering health care prices,” Hanel said.

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Health care coverage for more than a half-million Coloradans at stake in Obamacare fight at Supreme Court

Because of the ACA, about 400,000 Coloradans are receiving coverage through expanded eligibility for Medicaid. If the ACA falls in its entirety, Colorado would almost certainly be unable to find the money to continue Medicaid expansion, CHI's Joe Hanel told the Colorado Sun.