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Five years after marijuana legalization, legislators are focused mostly on business questions for the industry, although they are considering bills about health and law enforcement as well.
Public health funding is facing big cuts in President Trump’s proposed budget. A new analysis by the Colorado Health Institute finds that the president’s proposals – if approved – could place vital public health funding in Colorado at risk.
So what DO cowboy hats and Colorado’s Commission on Affordable Health Care have in common? You’ll never guess, so I’ll tell you: they’re both interested in telehealth.
Senate Bill 254 takes center stage at the legislature for the next two weeks. You might know it by its refreshingly simple moniker: the Long Bill.
The 18-day lifespan of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) left many open questions about the future of national health policy, but it also clarified the boundaries of the debate.
It’s the seventh anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It’s also the day that House Republicans had planned to repeal major parts of the law. The timing isn’t an accident.
The Republican Congress began the year with a confident pledge to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), emboldened by President Trump’s campaign pledge.
But the tune quickly changed, and instead of sounding the victory horns and lighting cigars with the burning remains of the ACA text, GOP lawmakers have struggled over the past months to craft a plan to replace the most significant health policy legislation in the past 50 years.
Then, on Monday, the House GOP released its long-awaited Obamacare replacement plan, titling it the American Health Care Act (AHCA).
This past Sunday, it was time to “spring forward.” The CHI team set our clocks ahead one hour and increased our coffee consumption for another busy week.
A CHI analysis finds the proposal by congressional Republicans to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would cause large reductions in Colorado’s Medicaid membership and a huge drop in federal funding for the low-income health coverage program.
The day we’ve been waiting for since November 9 has arrived. Congressional Republicans released their bill, dubbed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), to replace former President Barack Obama’s signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
I should be thinking about wonky health policy, but I can’t stop thinking about Coming to America, a 1988 movie starring Eddie Murphy.
In one scene, restaurant owner Cleo McDowell is trying to explain why his burger joint isn’t a rip-off of a well-known national chain.