The challenges of maintaining mental health are more apparent than ever, with millions of Americans out of work and millions more staying as isolated as we can. Those problems can seem unsolvable. But they can be addressed if we know where to start, CHI's Emily Johnson writes in an op-ed.
“The idea that hospitals and doctors are falsely inflating COVID numbers and even putting patients on ventilators to drive up their payments is not just ridiculous, but it’s insulting to the doctors who are putting their own lives at risk," CHI's Joe Hanel told The Denver Post.
"The state has really tried everything that it can to expand the ability for Coloradans to use telehealth," CHI's Jeff Bontrager told 9News.
Colorado lawmakers will have to decide whether the state’s health-care costs are so high they warrant that kind of public interference, says Michele Lueck, president of the Colorado Health Institute, a nonpartisan research group.
CHI's Joe Hanel is quoted in a USA Today article that dives into how Colorado's legislature has changed health policy in recent years. Read more here.
"The figure comes from the every-other-year Colorado Health Access Survey, produced by the nonpartisan Colorado Health Institute and considered the gold standard for numbers on how people interact with the state’s health system."
“They just might not trust the government when it says the rule doesn’t apply. The chilling effect probably leads people to avoid official interactions with the government whenever possible,” CHI's Joe Hanel told The Colorado Independent.
"'Colorado’s idea is to almost double down on the role of private health insurance,' said Joe Hanel, spokesman for the Colorado Health Institute."
"The individual market is where people who buy health coverage on their own — without help from an employer — get their insurance. It covers about 7% of the state, according to the Colorado Health Institute."
"I'm worried because it's a big part of our health care delivery system is built on the Affordable Care Act, and this would be tearing it down and replacing it with nothing," CHI's Joe Hanel told Colorado Public Radio News.