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With the big Broncos celebration tomorrow, the Colorado Health Institute will be doing all that we can to finish our work to watch the champions parade the streets of Denver. Here’s a look at what’s going on this week, along with several recent publications you don’t want to miss.
Allie Morgan, Director of Legislative Services, and Policy Analyst Emily Johnson, author of a new CHI brief on aid-in-dying legislation, provide an update from the House Judiciary Committee's emotional 10-hour hearing this week.
Got two minutes? That’s all you need to become an expert on how Colorado’s Hospital Provider Fee interacts with the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.
This new animation from the Colorado Health Institute demonstrates how the Hospital Provider Fee works and the side effects it bring to the state budget.
When Maggie Bailey and I first analyzed drug overdose deaths in Colorado counties over the past 13 years, we were shocked by the dramatic changes revealed by the time-lapse map we created to present the data.
This is a big week for backers and opponents of aid in dying, the movement to allow terminally ill adults to obtain medication to end their lives. Identical bills that seek to enact the “Colorado End-of-life Options Act” will both have hearings this week.
Legislators turned their attention to Connect for Health Colorado on January 21 when the marketplace’s leaders presented their annual report to a joint meeting of all three health committees.
The hearing was the highlight of action in health policy so far in this young legislative session, but the year is just getting under way.
This new analysis by the Colorado Health Institute offers the national and international context that is essential to understanding the debate of aid in dying.
We’re off and running in the 2016 legislative session, and lawmakers aren’t wasting any time. As of Monday, 160 bills had already been introduced. Here’s a look at some we’ll be watching.
Our own mortality is hard to think about. It’s an emotional, complex and often painful topic. But in past year, more policymakers, advocates and health care providers have started having difficult conversations on a controversial end of life option.