Michael Booth

Former Reporter

Michael Booth

Michael Booth was a health care & health policy writer at The Denver Post before departing in 2013. He started his journalism career as an assistant foreign editor at The Washington Post before moving with family to Denver and taking a brief stint with the Denver Business Journal. During a 25-year career at The Post, he covered city and state politics, droughts, entertainment and wrote Sunday takeouts, and was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for breaking news coverage.

Colorado’s health exchange strips goals to minimum as deadline looms

April 8, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.

Colorado's health exchange strips goals to minimum as deadline looms

MODEL HAND. University of Colorado research associate professor Richard Weir shows the beginning stages — a computer model — of manufacturing a plastic replica of his own hand.

Hospitals at Anschutz Medical Campus build precision body parts

April 30, 2016 at 1:25 a.m.

Hospitals at Anschutz Medical Campus build precision body parts

At Colorado's largest gun shop, Firing-Line, in Aurora, Monday, December 17, 2012, assault rifles are lined up for sale. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Gun checks went smoothly Saturday despite multiple Colorado shows

April 30, 2016 at 11:57 a.m.

Gun checks went smoothly Saturday despite multiple Colorado shows

Colorado teen birth rate plunges, far fewer second children

April 2, 2013 at 3:20 p.m.

Colorado teen birth rate plunges, far fewer second children

At Colorado's largest gun shop, Firing-Line, in Aurora, Monday, December 17, 2012, assault rifles are lined up for sale. RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post

CU suicide study: ERs could do more to ask distressed patients about guns

April 30, 2016 at 4:33 a.m.

CU suicide study: ERs could do more to ask distressed patients about guns

Robin Hackett, owner of Botana Care in Northglenn, Colo., putting medical marijuana suckers into a sample zipper-lock baggie.

Colorado pot accidents spur call for childproof packaging

April 30, 2016 at 1:13 a.m.

Colorado pot accidents spur call for childproof packaging

Medical marijuana and edibles are placed in a plastic lockbox that Robin Hackett sells at her Botana Care store in Northglenn. Hackett says lockboxes and larger locking bags should solve most safety problems.

Colorado pot accidents spur call for childproof packaging

May 13, 2016 at 2:45 p.m.

Colorado pot accidents spur call for childproof packaging

Robert Martinson, 67, died March 24 doing what he loved on the slopes.

Robert Martinson, 67, flier, skier, pioneer in computer sales

April 30, 2016 at 6:15 a.m.

Robert Martinson, 67, flier, skier, pioneer in computer sales

Group pushes for vote on single-payer health care in Colorado

June 8, 2016 at 1:51 p.m.

Group pushes for vote on single-payer health care in Colorado

“Mind-boggling” hospital drug shortages hit basics, gaps reach high

April 30, 2016 at 3:52 a.m.

"Mind-boggling" hospital drug shortages hit basics, gaps reach high

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Colorado’s health exchange strips goals to minimum as deadline looms

Hospitals at Anschutz Medical Campus build precision body parts

Gun checks went smoothly Saturday despite multiple Colorado shows

Colorado teen birth rate plunges, far fewer second children

CU suicide study: ERs could do more to ask distressed patients about guns

Colorado pot accidents spur call for childproof packaging

Colorado pot accidents spur call for childproof packaging

Robert Martinson, 67, flier, skier, pioneer in computer sales

Group pushes for vote on single-payer health care in Colorado

“Mind-boggling” hospital drug shortages hit basics, gaps reach high