What is a “skinny repeal” of Obamacare and how would it impact Colorado?
Republicans in the U.S. Senate have begun talking about voting on a "skinny repeal" of Obamacare if other options fail. So, what's that?
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Colorado’s Obamacare exchange making progress but needs to improve accounting, audit says
After two scathing audits in the last three years, a new state report finds that Connect for Health Colorado is making progress in fixing its accounting troubles but still has...
Senate health care bill would mean $9 billion less for Colorado in Medicaid funding, new report finds
A measure backed by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that could come up for a vote Tuesday would reduce what Colorado receives from the federal government in Medicaid funding...
Colorado’s Medicaid program is reducing opioid dosages to combat addiction and overdoses
After research showed that higher dosages of prescribed opioid painkillers were associated with more overdoses and deaths, Colorado's Medicaid program is reducing the maximum amount of opioids that most of...
A Senate Obamacare repeal could throw Colorado’s individual insurance market “into a death spiral”
If the Senate votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act next week, Colorado health insurers could respond by largely leaving the state.
Rising death rates for whites not the result of despair, CU study finds
A new study from researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder pushes back against the increasingly popular notion that economic despair is killing middle-class white Americans.
Colorado health insurers seek 27 percent premium increase in individual market
Insurers offering health plans in Colorado's individual market -- where about 7 or 8 percent of the state buys health insurance -- are asking permission to charge 27 percent more...
Colorado officials expected to announce proposed health insurance premium increases Friday
As the Colorado Division of Insurance prepares to release the proposed 2018 price increases for individual health plans, a new federal report suggests that the nation's Affordable Care Act insurance...
Finnish babies sleep in boxes, and now all new Colorado babies can get a free one, too
Baby boxes -- simple cardboard boxes that have been used by mothers in Finland for decades as a way to provide newborns with safe sleep environments -- will soon be...
Meet the faces of Medicaid in Colorado, where one in five people receives government health benefits
Medicaid in Colorado provides coverage for more than 1.3 million people, about one out of every five people in the state, and billions of dollars worth of cutbacks proposed under...