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Health care legislation continues to move through the Capitol, but most of the action for the next few weeks will involve the budget.
March is Women’s History Month. This year’s theme is Make it Happen, and it is all about closing the gender gap. In order to close these gaps, we need to know where they are.
Next week I celebrate 10 years at the Colorado Health Institute, and in the timeless lyrics of the Pointer Sisters, I’m so excited. I’m excited that this milestone corresponds with the release of the Colorado Access to Care Index.
The Joint Budget Committee is meeting all week to finalize the budget for fiscal year 2015-16, which soon will command most of the time at the legislature. But several other health bills have been moving through the Capitol.
It’s official. The Colorado Health Access Survey is in the field. And even though this is the earliest the survey has ever been launched, it’s not a minute too soon.
The NCAA’s 2015 March Madness basketball tournament kicks off this week in Dayton, and in offices around the country eager onlookers are taking a shot at filling out that perfect bracket. Here at the Colorado Health Institute office, we’re celebrating the occasion in our own way: a March Madness-themed presentation to the legislature.
Many students deal with stress brought on by academic expectations, peer pressure, bullying and other factors. All that stress can take a toll on a young person’s mental health.
Issues raised in the King vs. Burwell case could lead to yet another lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, according to members of the panel assembled by the Colorado Health Institute for last week's Brews and Views event.
We’re past the halfway point of the 2015 legislative session, which means the pressure is on to move bills forward. The budget discussion is nearing, as the Joint Budget Committee continues its figure-setting work in an attempt to introduce the Long Bill in the Senate on March 23.
You might imagine the life of a CHI-er as being spent in the office crunching numbers and scouring scientific and academic literature. While we do spend a chunk of our time researching and writing reports, we are also out in the community delivering presentations, participating in stakeholder meetings and sitting on panels.