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This week and next week we will be updating the list of health-related bills we are watching as they are introduced.
This presentation provides information on essential health benefits, the basic standard of coverage that will be required in all small group and individual health plans in 2014, and the state’s role in determining those standard benefits.
Two years ago around this time, I came down with the flu. I had held off on getting a flu shot because I was not one of the priority populations identified during the swine flu epidemic.
As the 2012 session of the Colorado Legislature gets underway, the Colorado Health Institute is closely tracking all things health policy over at the Capitol.
As a twenty-something, I get my health policy news from a variety of sources: Twitter, daily email digests, Kaiser Health News, blogs, and even the hard-copy New York Times on Sunday morning.
We all talk about how important the consumer perspective is to any initiative that alters the way health care is delivered or compensated. But how often do we actually reach out to average consumers and find out what they think about our new ideas to reform the system?
While the Colorado legislature has much to deliberate this session, including economic development, job creation and education reform, one of the top items on its list will be reducing health care expenditures.
Last week, The Denver Post published this article about how 1950s mothers (or rather the practices prescribed by their doctors) may have unwittingly contributed to the obesity epidemic in the United States.
1.637 billion is a really big number. It’s twice as big as the number of Facebook users worldwide, and that many people would fill every major sports arena in Denver approximately 10,000 times.