Subject: Medicaid

• Survey Says

  The state health department cracks down on inadequate care at one nursing home.

  February 11, 1999

• No Allowance

  Colorado nursing-home residents haven't had a cost-of-living raise in ten years.

  October 22, 1998

• A Badly Altered State

  A judge may force Colorado to take care of its homeless mentally ill population.

  September 14, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  February 28, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  April 10, 2003

• Death Sentence

  A bureaucratic loophole limits halfway house residents' access to health care, making it harder to survive on the outside.

  December 6, 2007

• Sharles Johnson is a hero to his children -- and the arch-enemy of Jefferson County.

  December 4, 2008

• Eternally Yours

  Life as Gloria Lamar knew it ended almost five years ago. But her heart beats on.

  February 11, 1999

• Dying for Dollars

  The nursing home industry is earning healthy profits. But its clients may be paying the price.

  October 15, 1998

• There's no place like home for Somali refugees in Greeley

  November 27, 2008

• Get Lost!

  These troubled teens found themselves at Lost and Found. But now the program is finding itself out of options.

  June 7, 2007

• The Magic Number

  Illegal immigrants are using stolen identities to work. But whose are they?

  February 15, 2007

• Switch Hitter

  Attorney Jay Reinan made his name defending nursing homes. Now he's out to expose them.

  May 25, 2006

• The Message

  Road Show

  February 17, 2005

• Smoke Detector

  Anne Landman has dedicated her life to being a pain in the ash. Will it make a difference come election time?

  September 16, 2004

• Fire Sale

  The cost of cigarettes could go up in smoke this November.

  April 15, 2004

• The Centers of the Storm

  Are we having funds yet?

  December 4, 2003

• Nowhere Boy

  His biological parents didn't want him -- but to get him the help he needs, his adoptive parents must give him up.

  December 4, 2003

• In Sickness and in Wealth

  April 3, 2003

• Cutting Edge

  A plan by some Colorado leaders to trim hard-won health-insurance benefits could leave consumers feeling the pain.

  February 14, 2002

• Old-Age Wisdom

  The state told Virginia Fraser to shut up, but she won't give up on the elderly.

  July 19, 2001

• A Dying Wish

  Peggy Quinn wanted to make death easier on the terminally ill, but she's made life hard on everyone else.

  May 31, 2001

• Mind Games

  The squeeze in managed mental-health care is choking patients and providers alike.

  May 24, 2001

• Ready, Willing and Disabled

  The state's treatment of the developmentally disabled isn't broken. So why does Colorado want to fix it?

  January 20, 2000

• The Denver Private School District

  Denver Public Schools considers privatizing its health and social services.

  April 15, 1999

• Letters

  February 18, 1999

• The Wheel Thing

  May 7, 1998

• Off Limits

  March 5, 1998

• Changing of the Guard

  After eighteen months as a ward of the court, Letty Milstein will finally get her day in court.

  December 18, 1997

• Captive Audience

  Roll out the gurneys! Hospitals fight for the right to treat prisoners.

  October 16, 1997

• Clinical Depression

  University Hospital abruptly pulls its money out of clinics that treat the poor.

  February 27, 1997

• Not Your Typical Shoot-'em-up

  February 6, 1997

• Shot in the Arm

  Colorado starts mandatory hepatitis B vaccinations for schoolkids.

  January 16, 1997

• Mental Anguish

  Rescuing the mentally ill has brought millions to the Mental Health Corporation of Denver--as well as complaints of coercion, mismanagement and neglect.

  December 5, 1996

• Virtual Ruckus

  A Denver company tries a fresh approach to home-care services--and loses a $2 million city contract.

  September 26, 1996

• Letters

  April 18, 1996

• Running Out of Patients

  Denver General gets ready to launch a downscale marketing campaign.

  April 4, 1996

• AFTERNOON DELIGHT

  August 16, 1995

• UNHEALTHY COMPETITION?

  August 2, 1995

• OFF LIMITS

  February 8, 1995

• THE NOVEMBER NUMBERS GAME

  November 2, 1994

• THE SICK BILL

  A COMPARISON OF TWO HOSPITAL BILLS SHOWS HOW COST-SHIFTING CAN KNEECAP CUSTOMERS.

  March 9, 1994

• From the week of June 11, 2009

  June 11, 2009

• The ideal healthcare system is in... Grand Junction?

  What St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction will look like after completing its "Century Project." In a report about efforts to control healthcare costs broadcast on National Public Radio this morning, Len Nichols, of the New America Foundation, an organization lobbying for reform in a wide array of areas, declared that "the ideal healthcare system" already exists in a number of places -- and the first one he mentioned was Grand Junction. The effusive press the Western Slope community has been

  June 29, 2009

• Colorado's new Medicaid funding plan will leave disabled adults on the outside

  August 20, 2009

• From the week of August 27, 2009

  August 27, 2009

• From the week of August 27, 2009

  August 27, 2009

• Denver Blogs: Call it a comeback

  ​ The blogosphere is our sanctuary. The Denver housing market is rebounding like Jessica Simpson. (That is, if you consider Colt Brennan a solid rebound). (5280) This is sort of meta, but: Melanie Asmar hits the radio to talk about last week's cover story on Medicaid cuts. Go, girl! (Colorado Pols) The Birdman really likes his nickname, according to the new flock of ink birds on his leg. (Denver Stiffs)

  August 27, 2009

• Colorado's share of Pfizer drug-marketing settlement a drop in the bucket

  John Suthers.​Colorado is set to receive more than $3.5 million from drug leviathan Pfizer in relation to two separate settlements. According to the office of Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, the largest of the two deals is related to allegations that the company "improperly marketed four drugs and paid kickbacks to persuade doctors to prescribe them," while the other one involved the selling of Geodon, an "atypical antipsychotic" medication -- presumably made to be taken by atypica

  September 2, 2009

• Jane Norton for Senate: The next great GOP hope

  Jane Norton.​Last month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee registered a couple of domain names on behalf of former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton -- and today, Norton's using one of them, JaneNortonForColorado.com. Up-front: A news item that declares, "Jane Norton officially filed the Jane Norton for Colorado campaign committee with the Federal Election Commission. The committee will allow Norton the opportunity to explore a bid for the United States Senate in 2010." A

  September 9, 2009