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The Colorado Health Institute has provided research, analysis, context and understanding about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) since it became law on March 23, 2010. This page highlights CHI’s work in the years prior to ACA implementation.
Love them or hate them, health insurance exchanges - or marketplaces - are open for business today, representing a centerpiece in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Here we are. October 1 marked the beginning in many ways of a grand innovation in social and health policy.
CHI pieced together a ground-level view of Colorado’s long-term services and supports (LTSS) system, illustrating how confusing and frustrating it can be to navigate. Understanding the system is the first step in the process for state leaders to make it more efficient and effective.
CHI has launched a new learning laboratory called Tracking Reform Action in Colorado (TRAC) to provide the most up-to-date inventory of efforts underway to track, monitor and evaluate health reform implementation.
What we do outside of the health care system – things as simple as eating right and exercising – matter at least as much as what happens in the doctor’s office.
For the past several months, the team here at the Colorado Health Institute has been involved in a large, state-wide project, the State Innovation Model, or SIM, as it’s widely known - a complex and multi-faceted undertaking that begins with a simple premise.
Data from the 2011 Colorado Health Access Survey (CHAS) helps to paint a portrait of the Coloradans most likely to buy their health insurance on the state’s new marketplace, which is expected to open for business this fall.
As the clock ticks toward launch of Colorado’s new insurance marketplace, leaders across the state are grappling with plenty of unanswered questions.
A mountain hike just feels like Colorado, and it didn’t take long to decide on a theme for our new report: Reaching Our Peak: Creating a Healthier Colorado. We examine policies and programs gaining momentum in Colorado and across the nation within the health care system and beyond – schools, communities, the workplace, and where we age – because the trail to better health most often begins outside a health provider’s office.