Dr. Patty Gabow, CEO and medical director of Denver Health, testified in front of a U.S. House of Representatives committee on the issue of health care reform Thursday.
A draft proposal in the Senate to overhaul the nation's health-care system would require most people to buy health insurance, authorize an expansion of Medicaid coverage and create consumer-owned cooperative plans instead of the government coverage that President Obama is seeking.
President Obama has an invitation to visit Rocky Mountain Health Plans in Grand Junction, courtesy of U.S. Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo.
Salazar, whose 3rd Congressional District includes Grand Junction, where Rocky Mountain Health Plans is based, noted in his invitation to the president that the health care system in Mesa County has been lauded both in an essay in the New Yorker magazine and the Dartmouth Atlas, a study of health-care systems in the United States.
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Confused by Various Federal Health Care Reform Proposals?
This is an exciting time in Washington, as comprehensive health care reform has emerged as a top priority for Congress and the Obama Administration.
To help consumers track the many different proposals presented by Congress, the Kaiser Family Foundation has created a side-by-side comparasion tool including the major reform proposals presented to date.
Obama's Health Care Action Center Launches Health Care Stories for America
As part of the Obama Administration's Organizing for America Project and in collaboration with a federal Health Care Day of Service, an extensive and powerful national health care story bank has been launched. Read personal stories from countless Americans whose voices collectively make the strongest case for meaningful health care reform, and share your own story!
As Congress digs in to come up with the answer for today’s health care crisis, they are looking for advice from the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative. CCHI Executive Director Dede de Percin met with key Congressional staff members on June 16th to discuss the findings of the Affordability Study that Colorado Voices for Coverage and the Colorado Center on Law and Policy released in April.
The report, “The Cost of Care: Can Coloradans Afford Health Care” shows that many Colorado families have little or nothing left at the end of each month to pay for health care, and, in many cases, health care costs force families to make financial tradeoffs with other necessary expenses, such as food, housing, or utilities.
The Cost of Care: Can Coloradans Afford Health Care is a joint project of The Colorado Center on Law & Policy and Colorado Voices for Coverage (of which CCHI is a partner). As debate around healthcare reform evolves at the state and federal levels, there are three critical areas that policymakers must consider: adequacy, accessability, and- the focus of this recent study- affordability. The aim of this study was to assist in determining what affordability really means for Colorado families.
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Understanding COBRA Premium Assistance
The new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides premium assistance to help involuntarily unemployed workers purchase their former employer's COBRA or other continuation coverage. Under the Act, for up to nine months, eligible unemployed workers will need to pay only 35 percent of the total premiums to continue the health coverage that they had through their jobs, and the federal government will reimburse employers or health plans for the remaining 65 percent of premium charges.
To learn more about who is eligible for this assistance and for more information, click here to view a consumer guide (courtesy of Families USA).
CCHI Celebrates Passage of House Bill 1293- Colorado Healthcare Affordability Act!
This important bill, which will secure access to health care for up to 200,000 currently uninsured Coloradans, passed the Senate on Monday, April 6th. This is a major victory for all organizations who supported the measure, and is a step toward meaningful healthcare reform in our state!
