In contrast to 10 other statewide APCDs, Colorado’s receives no public funding. Currently, it is funded entirely by grants from Colorado foundations that recognize the value the APCD can bring to the people of Colorado.
Even before the Colorado legislature passed the All-Payer Database law and the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing turned your medical records over to CIVHC, a private 501(c)(3), the
Whether it makes sense to spend $1,172 in order to reduce average out-of-pocket spending by $215 is an open question.
Those who wrote the ObamaCare law apparently believed the basic arithmetic of financial exposure varies from culture to culture.
The government doesn’t have this information at present. If it did, it wouldn’t be asking for it and squirreling it away.
Medicaid expansion would limit access to care for the significant fraction of the currently uninsured who would otherwise be eligible for federal premium subsidies under ObamaCare. It raises costs for
We need serious mental healthcare reform, but why on earth would our elected officials open that can of worms? There’s nothing in it for them.
For those who are not disabled, commercial insurance is more flexible than Medicaid and offers better access to health care.
Gov. John Hickenlooper wants yet another expansion of Colorado Medicaid. This one will cover the more than 86,000 college students in Colorado that the Census Bureau estimates have incomes below the federal
The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has radically restructured federal subsidy programs for medical care. For the first time in decades, it makes it reasonable for Colorado to
So thanks to the fuzzy logic, inherent contradictions and cruel irony of Amendment 35, cigarette smoking is now a civic virtue; and the tax-funded busy-bodies who want people to quit smoking are denying health care to poor children.
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