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Medicaid

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Civil unions stalemate: Fallout affects small businesses, poor, others

    The Republican House leadership's successful effort to block passage of a civil unions bill yesterday, orchestrated by Speaker Frank McNulty, could well have aftershocks stretching to the fall elections. And lawmakers who opted for inaction may be facing much more than the wrath of liberals and acti ... More >>

  • News

    December 8, 2011

    SNAP Judgment: State officials hope to get food to the needy faster

    The Republican House leadership's successful effort to block passage of a civil unions bill yesterday, orchestrated by Speaker Frank McNulty, could well have aftershocks stretching to the fall elections. And lawmakers who opted for inaction may be facing much more than the wrath of liberals and acti ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 3, 2011

    PHAMALY's Quadrapalooza is homegrown...and very funny

    The Republican House leadership's successful effort to block passage of a civil unions bill yesterday, orchestrated by Speaker Frank McNulty, could well have aftershocks stretching to the fall elections. And lawmakers who opted for inaction may be facing much more than the wrath of liberals and acti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2011

    Denver Children's Advocacy Center, others win federal grant to educate families about Medicaid

    ​ The Denver Children's Advocacy Center has won a $50,000 federal grant to educate parents and pregnant women about Medicaid and other health insurance for low-income families. The grant is the second such award for the center, which serves children who have been sexually abused, neglected or ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Circumcision: Colorado to stop Medicaid coverage of snipping newborn boys' foreskin

    Flickr​ A week from today, Colorado is cutting -- pun intended -- Medicaid funding for circumcisions. According to the Associated Press, the state will join seventeen others in making the cost-saving move, which will likely please circumcision opponents, such as Paul Russo, the subject of a 19 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2011

    Support for Mission Supports

    Flickr​ A week from today, Colorado is cutting -- pun intended -- Medicaid funding for circumcisions. According to the Associated Press, the state will join seventeen others in making the cost-saving move, which will likely please circumcision opponents, such as Paul Russo, the subject of a 19 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Local Spanish language soap opera takes on obesity

    ​Long-lost evil twin? An intergenerational love affair between family members who don't know they're related? A romance forged via ESP between two people in a coma? As long as the dramatic music was right, we wouldn't blink if we saw one of those absurd scenarios unfold on a daily soap. But ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Mexican Macro-economics

    ​Long-lost evil twin? An intergenerational love affair between family members who don't know they're related? A romance forged via ESP between two people in a coma? As long as the dramatic music was right, we wouldn't blink if we saw one of those absurd scenarios unfold on a daily soap. But ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

    ​Long-lost evil twin? An intergenerational love affair between family members who don't know they're related? A romance forged via ESP between two people in a coma? As long as the dramatic music was right, we wouldn't blink if we saw one of those absurd scenarios unfold on a daily soap. But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Mike Fallon, Republican candidate in District 1, takes on Diana DeGette, seeks cure for Congress

    Mike Fallon​It's the middle of the afternoon and Mike Fallon is at Pint's Pub. The Republican candidate for Colorado's 1st Congressional District wasn't driven to the bottle by the rigors of campaigning, however. Rather, he's holding the first in a series of town-hall meetings that will take ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    Marijuana debate: Should indigent patients wait months before earning state benefits?

    ​Which medical marijuana patients deserve financial assistance -- and how long should they wait for it? This question arose during debate over House Bill 1284, part of the state's new package of medical marijuana laws. Now, the health department's new medical marijuana advisory group is tryin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Denver Health breaks ground on a new adolescent psych unit

    ​Denver Health broke ground this week on a four-story building that by late next year will be home to an adolescent psychiatric facility. Although the psych ward's new digs won't be a whole lot bigger, Denver Health officials say they will be a lot better. In terms of hard numbers, the facili ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    John Hickenlooper welcomes Arizona's illegal immigrants: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

    ​ Mayor and (nearly) Governor John Hickenlooper says, "Welcome Illegal Immigrants!" What benefits will they receive? Look below to find out:

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    John Suthers, twelve other attorneys general, team up to kill health-care law: Read the lawsuit

    "The Florida guy had to write the whole thing...."​Yesterday afternoon, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced that he would be joining "nearly a dozen" fellow AGs across the country in suing to stop the just-signed health-care law from taking effect. Since then, the number of bandw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    $1.5 million federal grant to help adults with disabilities in Colorado find jobs

    An image from the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing website​ The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (known affectionately as "hick-puff") didn't win any popularity contests this past summer when it unveiled changes in the way Medicaid payments would b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    How can child abuse best be prevented in Colorado? Officials disagree...

    Chandler Grafner, seven, died of starvation at the hands of his caregivers in 2007.​The debate over how to serve the state's neediest citizens, including abused children, has come to a head in the weeks since a governor-appointed committee recommended that the state should take over county res ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Abortion rights a hill Diana DeGette's willing to die on in healthcare debate

    Will Nancy Pelosi get so mad at Diana DeGette that she actually blinks?​Just because the House of Representatives passed a healthcare bill this weekend doesn't mean it'll stay passed. Denver congresswoman Diana DeGette is leading a group of reproductive-rights supporters who are mad as hell th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 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 fo ... More >>

  • News

    August 27, 2009

    From the week of August 27, 2009

    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 fo ... More >>

  • News

    August 27, 2009

    From the week of August 27, 2009

    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 fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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! (Colorad ... More >>

  • News

    August 20, 2009

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

    ​ 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! (Colorad ... More >>

  • News

    December 6, 2007

    Death Sentence

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

  • News

    June 7, 2007

    Get Lost!

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

  • News

    February 15, 2007

    The Magic Number

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

  • News

    May 25, 2006

    Switch Hitter

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

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    Smoke Detector

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

  • News

    December 4, 2003

    The Centers of the Storm

    Are we having funds yet?

  • News

    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.

  • News

    April 10, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of April 10, 2003

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    In Sickness and in Wealth

    Medicaid patients could be facing death by a thousand cuts.

  • News

    February 28, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of February 28, 2002

  • News

    February 14, 2002

    Cutting Edge

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

  • News

    July 19, 2001

    Old-Age Wisdom

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

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    A Dying Wish

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

  • News

    May 24, 2001

    Mind Games

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

  • News

    January 20, 2000

    Ready, Willing and Disabled

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

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    The Denver Private School District

    Denver Public Schools considers privatizing its health and social services.

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    Survey Says

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

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    Eternally Yours

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

  • News

    October 22, 1998

    No Allowance

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

  • News

    October 15, 1998

    Dying for Dollars

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

  • News

    December 18, 1997

    Changing of the Guard

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

  • News

    October 16, 1997

    Captive Audience

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

  • News

    February 27, 1997

    Clinical Depression

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

  • News

    December 5, 1996

    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.

  • News

    April 18, 1996

    Letters

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

  • News

    April 4, 1996

    Running Out of Patients

    Denver General gets ready to launch a downscale marketing campaign.

  • News

    August 2, 1995

    UNHEALTHY COMPETITION?

    A NEW, HARD-SELL HMO STORMS INTO COLORADO, HOPING TO SCOOP UP MEDICAID BUSINESS.

  • News

    March 9, 1994

    THE SICK BILL

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

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