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Opinion: Let’s stop choosing between buying food or healthcare. The urgent need for Medicare-for-all

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What would happen if the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — went away?

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Opinion: Sen. Gardner, prioritize heath care of Colorado families, not special interests

By Penny Potts Opinion

Nicolais: Could Hickenlooper clear the field as Cory Gardner did in 2014? Not likely.

By Mario Nicolais Opinion

Colorado’s reinsurance program is the biggest thing to happen to health care in the state in years. It might not last.

By John Ingold Health Primary category in which blog post is published

Colorado lawmakers approved a public option for health insurance. Now the state has to figure out how to actually build it.

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In rural Colorado, emergency medical services struggle to keep money-losing ambulances rolling

By Michael Booth Health Primary category in which blog post is published
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Three reasons why Colorado lawmakers spend so much time tinkering with health insurance for a small percentage of people

The individual market dominates discussions at the state Capitol about how to reform health coverage

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To fund their No. 1 health care priority, Colorado lawmakers look to a new source: Money originally earmarked for affordable housing

The program would be smaller and hospitals would have to chip in less, but Colorado's reinsurance bill still faces hurdles

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Colorado’s proposed first-in-the-nation health insurance program just got a big rewrite. Here’s what changed.

Colorado hospitals say they want to see lower insurance premiums, even if it means they must foot the bill

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Colorado lawmakers are backing big health care system changes. But the Trump administration may get the final say

Even if Colorado lawmakers pass bills to address high insurance and prescription drug costs, the plans still need approval from the federal government

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Colorado lawmakers nixed an experiment to allow people to buy into state employees’ health coverage. Here’s why

The inability to make the proposed pilot program work could impact Colorado’s plan to create a health insurance “public option”

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Colorado joins lawsuit against Trump administration’s effort to increase Obamacare birth-control exemptions

The legal action was one that Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat, promised in January to join

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Summit County health care prices force families to make desperate decisions. A new plan for how consumers buy coverage could change that.

The Peak Health Alliance could become a statewide model for how to give patients an upper hand over prices

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Here’s how Colorado insurance regulators quietly undermined a Trump administration rule on health coverage

The change -- taking aim at a rule seen as weakening the Affordable Care Act -- makes it less likely that short-term health plans will gain popularity in the state

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Colorado’s new attorney general plans legal action against Trump administration over health care, citizenship question

Phil Weiser says “there is going to be an ongoing opportunity for us to join a range of lawsuits that are protecting our Colorado way of life (and) our population and standing up for the rule of law.”