A July 1, 2021 article in TIME, States Are Leading the Way on a Public Health Insurance Option, covers legislative activity in Colorado, Nevada, and Washington, outlines how the public option works, and reports on the pushback from hospitals and providers.
9News article about uninsured rates in Hispanic/Latinx children cites research from the Colorado Health Access Survey.
Denver7 covers the debate over the Colorado Option insurance plan in the state legislature and quotes CHI's Joe Hanel.
“It turned into something that was not classically a public option, but was still a really big, or one of the biggest, ideas that we’ve seen in lowering health care prices,” Hanel said.
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Several media outlets covered CHI's release of new research on the prevalence of COVID-19 in prisons, jails, and detention centers in Colorado.
Because of the ACA, about 400,000 Coloradans are receiving coverage through expanded eligibility for Medicaid. If the ACA falls in its entirety, Colorado would almost certainly be unable to find the money to continue Medicaid expansion, CHI's Joe Hanel told the Colorado Sun.
CHI CEO Michele Lueck spoke with Colorado Public Radio's Ryan Warner about the big questions on all three — and how they're inextricably linked.
CHI’s President and CEO, Michele Lueck, argues in a Colorado Sun op-ed that the coronavirus failures that led us to this point began years ago.
"In 2019, 15.3% of Coloradans reported poor mental health, compared with 11.8% in 2017, according to a survey by the Colorado Health Institute."
“The fear would be that any financial pressure on hospitals could have access implications for patients, particularly in a rural area,” Spencer Budd told the Denver Post.
“One change includes where telemedicine can be offered. Physicians can offer services from their home, if they’re self-isolating. And then there’s also some safety net clinics that can offer telemedicine when they couldn’t before,” said CHI's Jeff Bontrager told Denver7 News.