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Paying for Health Care

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Rachel Maddow likens today's Republican candidates to 2010 Senate loser Ken Buck

    Denver blog posts want to dance with somebody. Colorado Pols spotlights Rachel Maddow's argument that Republicans fussing about contraception and health insurance are in danger of Ken Buck-ing themselves. 5280's Daliah Singer on the start of the DU lacrosse season. View From a Height's Joshua Sha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Thanks Obamacare! website aims to turn partisan slur into positive term (VIDEO)

    Obama caring.​The term "Obamacare" was originally conceived by opponents of President Barack Obama's health-care reforms as a way of hanging what they saw as a political albatross around his neck. But now, a group of Colorado activists have embraced the word with ThanksObamacare.org, a website ... 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

    July 20, 2011

    Same-sex insurance tax penalty: Dave Ensign on his pitch to Boulder Human Rights Commission

    Flickr​Update: Out Boulder board member Dave Ensign wants his hometown to become only the second community in the nation to compensate city employees for tax penalties they suffer when buying health insurance for same-sex partners -- and he feels that his proposal before Boulder's Human Rights ... 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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Reader: Tea Party types are wrong to think Social Security is a redistribution of wealth

    ​Our post about this past weekend's Tax Day Tea Party in Loveland turned into a lively forum for debate about whether this grassroots movement is a good thing or a bad thing. Here's a post from someone representing the latter point of view.

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    John Suthers calls ruling against health-care legislation a victory for federalism: Read it here

    John Suthers.​Last March, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers joined "nearly a dozen" state AGs in challenging the constitutionality of just-passed health-care legislation. Now, he is celebrating a U.S. District Court ruling in Florida that concludes Congress "exceeded the bounds of its aut ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

    John Suthers.​Last March, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers joined "nearly a dozen" state AGs in challenging the constitutionality of just-passed health-care legislation. Now, he is celebrating a U.S. District Court ruling in Florida that concludes Congress "exceeded the bounds of its aut ... 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

    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

    March 19, 2010

    Betsy Markey and David Sirota at the Cherry Cricket: Kenny Be's Friday Afternoon Club

    Kenny Be​ "You think my support of the Health Care Reform Bill will jeopardize my re-election? Well, just what do you know about anything? I can tell you this, what you don't know, Mr. Sirota, could fill a book. Make that two books, a blog and a three-hour daily radio show."

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Michael Bennet and health care: Live by the public option, or die by it

    "Hey, Barack. Remember that public-option thing you used to be so hot on?"​Colorado's Michael Bennet is widely seen as being among the most vulnerable Democratic senators in advance of the November 2010 election -- hence President Barack Obama's fundraising visit to Denver last week before a p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    Single payer health care rally for Obama visit: The concept is better for everyone except those getting rich off current, broken system, organizer says

    Dr. Margaret Flowers will speak at the rally.​President Barack Obama's visit to Denver today is prompting more spectacles than just a medical marijuana protest featuring Sensible Colorado's Brian Vicente, which is scheduled to be underway at this writing. For instance, there's also "Rally 'Ro ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 4, 2010

    The Color of Money

    Dr. Margaret Flowers will speak at the rally.​President Barack Obama's visit to Denver today is prompting more spectacles than just a medical marijuana protest featuring Sensible Colorado's Brian Vicente, which is scheduled to be underway at this writing. For instance, there's also "Rally 'Ro ... 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 4, 2009

    John McCain Medicare-scare robocalls target Michael Bennet

    At least he's not saying healthcare reform mirrors the North Vietnamese approach...​Yesterday, an amendment sponsored by Colorado Senator Michael Bennet guaranteeing no Medicare benefit takeaways because of healthcare reform passed 100-0. Among those voting for it: Arizona's John McCain, who's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Michael Bennet bets his job on healthcare: Brave or stupid?

    A single word from Senator Michael Bennet has simultaneously thrilled his supporters and emboldened critics who think he's might an incredible strategic blunder. That word is "yes." This weekend, Bennet appeared on CNN's State of the Union program, and when interrogator Jon King asked if he'd stil ... 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

    November 10, 2009

    Betsy Markey rep just not that into talking about her "no" vote on healthcare bill

    Betsy Markey doesn't like the House's healthcare bill -- and she's not that into talking about why not, either.​Even though Diana DeGette has big problems with an amendment to the mammoth healthcare bill limiting access to abortions, she voted for the measure. Not so Betsy Markey, the only Dem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Archbishop Charles Chaput puts Obama administration on notice about abortion funding

    Archbishop Charles Chaput supports healthcare reform -- but his mind could be changed.​Archbishop Charles Chaput supports healthcare reform -- but his mind could be changed.​Although Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput is seen as an arch-conservative in many quarters, he's actually supporte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    Jane Norton's introduction not too mavericky

    Earlier this week, ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo said former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton, then on the cusp of formally announcing her candidacy for the U.S. Senate, wasn't "ready for prime time" and was only running because she'd been urged to do so by Arizona Senator John McCain. Since ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 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 official ... 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 20, 2009

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

    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 10, 2009

    Ed Perlmutter gets an earful at health-care meeting in Brighton

    On Friday, we shared a video in which folks protesting healthcare reform in Pueblo compared Obamacare to Pol Pot and Adolph Hitler -- and this brand of overheated rhetoric is hardly isolated to that community. Over the weekend at an event in Brighton, pro-healthcare reform rep Ed Perlmutter was gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 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 ... More >>

  • News

    June 11, 2009

    From the week of June 11, 2009

    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 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 27, 2007

    Get On the Bus

    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 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 25, 2007

    The Best Medicine

    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 ... More >>

  • Music

    September 22, 2005

    Pick of the Week

    Benefit for Chris Rawles at Cricket on the Hill

  • News

    April 15, 2004

    Fire Sale

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

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    Pop Quiz

    November 27, 2003
    Biggest Turkeys Ever!

  • News

    April 3, 2003

    In Sickness and in Wealth

    Medicaid patients could be facing death by a thousand cuts.

  • 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

    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

    April 15, 1999

    The Denver Private School District

    Denver Public Schools considers privatizing its health and social services.

  • News

    May 14, 1998

    Separation Anxiety

    Doctors thought banding together might give them more power at Rose Medical Center. Instead, they wound up owning their own hospital.

  • 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 15, 1995

    PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES

    BLUE CROSS SETTLES CO-PAY COMPLAINTS BUT STILL INTENDS TO CUT ITS OWN DEALS ON MEDICAL BILLS.

  • News

    March 9, 1994

    THE SICK BILL

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

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