Colorado’s ’urgent’ ask for health care providers: Please donate time for telehealth
"The state has really tried everything that it can to expand the ability for Coloradans to use telehealth," CHI's Jeff Bontrager told 9News.
"The state has really tried everything that it can to expand the ability for Coloradans to use telehealth," CHI's Jeff Bontrager told 9News.
Colorado lawmakers will have to decide whether the state’s health-care costs are so high they warrant that kind of public interference, says Michele Lueck, president of the Colorado Health Institute, a nonpartisan research group.
CHI's Joe Hanel is quoted in a USA Today article that dives into how Colorado's legislature has changed health policy in recent years. Read more here.
"The figure comes from the every-other-year Colorado Health Access Survey, produced by the nonpartisan Colorado Health Institute and considered the gold standard for numbers on how people interact with the state’s health system."
“They just might not trust the government when it says the rule doesn’t apply. The chilling effect probably leads people to avoid official interactions with the government whenever possible,” CHI's Joe Hanel told The Colorado Independent.
"'Colorado’s idea is to almost double down on the role of private health insurance,' said Joe Hanel, spokesman for the Colorado Health Institute."
"The individual market is where people who buy health coverage on their own — without help from an employer — get their insurance. It covers about 7% of the state, according to the Colorado Health Institute."
"I'm worried because it's a big part of our health care delivery system is built on the Affordable Care Act, and this would be tearing it down and replacing it with nothing," CHI's Joe Hanel told Colorado Public Radio News.
In a new Colorado Health Institute survey, experts weighed between spending money on treatment, prevention and other priorities.
"A new report from the Colorado Health Institute shows nearly a thousand Coloradans died from an overdose last year. In 2018, 974 Coloradans died, which is down from 1,012 deaths recorded in 2017." –– 9News