Our Work
We reflected on our work so far this year and reenergized for the coming months during a staff retreat on Monday. Staff members presented TED talks – or CHED talks, as CEO Michele Lueck called them, combining CHI and TED - on everything from market trends to health disparities to how chalk art relates to health care.
It's the race to the finish line for Colorado as it writes an application for a multi-million dollar State Innovation Model grant.
This week, the Colorado Health Institute is working largely outside of our office walls with staff attending conferences here in Colorado, New Orleans and on the East Coast.
The Colorado Health Institute explores the financial burden of medical bills in our latest brief. This is particularly timely as the nation begins to assess the effectiveness of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in meeting its goal of limiting the financial exposure to medical expenses.
We hope you’ve seen the Colorado Health Institute’s new publication analyzing Colorado’s uninsured population, our first entirely map-based report.
The next open enrollment period for private insurance doesn’t begin until November, but planning has already begun in Colorado for outreach and enrollment efforts next time around.
Now that the 2014 legislative session has come to an end, exhausted lawmakers are thrilled to finally have a break. But here at the Colorado Health Institute, our work is just beginning.
Many health policy experts extol the virtues of transparency as an effective way to generate competition in the health insurance and health care markets. They expect that consumers who better understand what they are paying for will make informed – what economists call rational - decisions.
Michele Lueck, our CEO, was a panelist last week during a conference at the University of Pennsylvania looking at early results of a national study tracking the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
In Colorado, a Hispanic adult is nearly twice as likely not to have health insurance as a non-Hispanic adult. That fact led us to research and write our latest brief.