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This paper provides a broad understanding of the theory and goals of cost-sharing, examines the evidence of its ability to curb costs, and looks at whether cost-sharing impacts the use of health care and, ultimately, health outcomes.
“March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb,” the saying goes. Here at the Colorado Health Institute, March will be coming in and going out like a lion with a number of launches and publications on the agenda for this month.
The 2014 Legislative Lunch & Learn Series featured presentations on health reform, Colorado’s primary care workforce and market-based solutions to control health care costs.
We are almost halfway through the session, and our team at CHI continues to track the introduction and progress of health-related legislation.
Health care costs are high. This week we presented information on market-based solutions to this problem and released a report on cost-sharing, one of the most common and fastest changing approaches to containing health care spending.
Maybe it’s something in the water. At least that’s what Jeff Bontrager, Director of Research on Coverage and Access, speculated during our Monday morning staff meeting as he told us about all of the information requests that are coming our way.
Colorado’s Medicaid program has grown significantly since the legislature approved Medicaid expansion last year, welcoming thousands of newly-eligible enrollees. We are seeing several bills during this session that aim to improve and streamline the Medicaid program, including House Bill 14-1115, which the House Public Health Care and Human Services Committee passed this week.
The average age of a U.S. Olympian in the Sochi Games is 26. They are young, healthy and at the height of their athletic careers – probably feeling very invincible.
Welcome to the Colorado Health Institute’s first Legislative Roundup of 2014. We are tracking the introduction and progress of all health-related legislation. Here are bills that we have been paying particular attention to, complete with sponsors, status updates and a brief explanation.
If you haven’t already, be sure to read our latest report - Colorado’s Primary Care Workforce: A Study of Regional Disparities – launched last week. Lead author, Rebecca Alderfer, was interviewed by Ryan Warner for Colorado Matters on Colorado Public Radio and appeared on Fox31 Denver News.