Cómo navegar por el mercado de Connect for Health Colorado, entender la Opción de Colorado, dónde ir para obtener ayuda con Medicare y más respuestas a tus preguntas.
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It’s open enrollment season. Here are expert tips for buying health insurance in Colorado.
Navigating the Connect for Health Colorado exchange, understanding the Colorado Option, where to go for help with Medicare and more questions answered
Posted inHealth, News, Politics and Government
U.S. Supreme Court dismisses challenge that threatened to unwind Obamacare
By Mark Sherman, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the Obama era health care law, preserving insurance coverage for millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands of Coloradans. The justices, by a 7-2 vote, left the entire law intact Thursday in ruling that Texas, other Republican-led states and two […]
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Health care coverage for more than a half-million Coloradans at stake in Obamacare fight at Supreme Court
When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Tuesday over the future of the Affordable Care Act, billions of dollars a year and coverage for hundreds of thousands of people in Colorado will hang in the balance. But some of the law’s most famous and popular consumer protections — such as protections for people with […]
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Jim Morrissey: Can Cory Gardner pull health care out of a hat?
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
Posted inHealth, News, Politics and Government
Here’s how Cory Gardner’s bill would and wouldn’t protect people with preexisting conditions
Think of health policymaking like those old-timey variety show videos of people spinning a bunch of plates at once. There’s just a ton going on, and focusing only on one thing will cause the rest of the apparatus to come crashing down. This, in a tortured-metaphor kind of way, explains why health policy experts say […]
Posted inElection 2020, Health, News, Politics and Government
Cory Gardner wants to get rid of Obamacare. But it’s not clear what he plans to replace it with.
Cory Gardner doesn’t like Obamacare. Ask the Republican senator from Colorado about how to improve health care and the first response you’re likely to hear is that President Barack Obama’s signature 2010 Affordable Care Act needs to be repealed. It’s “destroying this country,” he once said. Ask Gardner for his plans to replace the law, […]
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Opposition to Obamacare becomes political liability for Cory Gardner and other Republican incumbents
By Markian Hawryluk, Kaiser Health News In the 2014 elections, Republicans rode a wave of anti-Affordable Care Act sentiment to pick up nine Senate seats, the largest gain for either party since 1980. Newly elected Republicans such as Cory Gardner in Colorado and Steve Daines in Montana had hammered their Democratic opponents over the health […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: The ACA changed how we treat cancer — and it is all at risk because of our current leadership
Health is a fragile thing. We’ve been told this over and over, but often it’s hard to imagine that we are anything but invincible. There are certain moments in our lives when that changes. The world is currently living through one of those moments. But for us, that moment came when we were given a […]
Posted inCrime and Courts, Health, News, Politics and Government
Colorado sues Trump administration over mandate that insurance companies send separate bill for abortion coverage
Colorado has joined six other states and the District of Columbia in suing the Trump administration over a rule requiring insurance companies to send a second, separate bill for abortion and other reproductive health coverage. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services policy, which went into effect Tuesday, applies to states that allow insurance […]