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The Colorado Health Institute visits the most interesting numerals from a month of health and healthy policy stories.
This just in. The newest state revenue forecasts released Friday morning contain some sobering economic projections, news that may impact the contentious debate this session over the Hospital Provider Fee.
BLOG UPDATE: The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-2 vote on March 1, sided with Liberty Mutual, the insurance company that objects to the Vermont law requiring all health insurers to report claims data.
One of the few areas where Republicans and Democrats can agree during this contentious year is that greater transparency in our health care system is a good thing. But that didn’t help a House Democrat this week who wanted to bring greater transparency to drug prices.
We knew when western Colorado health insurance prices skyrocketed this year that the region’s legislators would have something to say about it. This week, they spoke loud and clear.
Sometimes we become immune to acronyms in the world of health policy. Case in point: I first wrote this sentence to start the blog: “The JBC approved CDPHE’s request to fund LARC, including IUDs.”
We are inching closer to March – even though it feels like May outside. And that means we’re awaiting the new state revenue forecast and the Long Bill (a.k.a. the state budget). We’ll likely hear more about the Hospital Provider Fee as well.
Connect for Health Colorado is preparing a strategic plan that will consider whether the state’s online insurance marketplace should transfer part of its operations to the federal Healthcare.gov website.
The plan is meant to advance a conversation with legislators who asked Connect for Health Colorado’s leaders to think about joining the federal exchange. It doesn’t mean that the federal exchange is the preferred option, spokesman Luke Clarke told the Colorado Health Institute.
Trivia time: How many bills were introduced in Colorado’s General Assembly in 2015?