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The debate over the Affordable Care Act has overshadowed another important congressional decision: the September 30 deadline to renew the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
All this year, it seems like I’ve been reading obituaries for bills that won’t die.
The Obamacare era is over! The House Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal is dead! Sen. John McCain cast the deciding vote to repeal the ACA! Wait, McCain cast the deciding vote to save the ACA!
My colleagues at the Colorado Health Institute and I have even written some of these obits ourselves.
It’s a new day, with a new Senate bill.
And the same story.
The first version of a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was introduced early this year, and ever since that day, we at the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) have encouraged people to pay special attention to Medicaid. That’s still the case for the latest version of the bill that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released today.
Studies show that climate change and health are linked. Rising temperatures, polluted air and extreme weather, among the most impactful results of climate change, threaten both physical and psychological well-being.
The health bill is delayed, but it's far from dead. Here's what we are watching.
While this year’s session threatened to collapse at times and was full of its share of finger-pointing and partisan politics, Democrats and Republicans managed to strike big deals on big issues.
While the Trump Administration aims to make large Medicaid cuts, Colorado lawmakers are taking a different approach.
Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published new estimates of the American Health Care Act’s impact. The ACHA is expected to save $119 billion over a decade but leave 23 million more Americans uninsured by 2026.
Legislators opted for small changes to medical licensing in their 2017 session, but the Senate spiked a plan to institute criminal background checks for providers.
Several bills were introduced this session to increase consumer protection and provide clarification regarding licenses for professionals and medical equipment suppliers.
At the beginning of the legislative session 120 days ago, it looked like Colorado hospitals had been dealt a bad hand. Legislators were gunning at the freestanding emergency rooms several hospital groups have been opening around the Front Range, the lieutenant governor wanted to open hospitals’ finances to public inspection, and worst of all, they were facing a $260 million funding cut through plans to shrink the Hospital Provider Fee.