Under the new federal health care reform plan, medical services are expected to become more patient-friendly for the more than 700,000 Coloradans who live in rural areas.

Denver Business Journal

The head of the Colorado Children’s Campaign — in response to a Denver Business Journal report that several Colorado health insurers will stop selling child-only policies — said Friday she is “deeply concerned about the impact this decision would have on our most vulnerable children and families.”

By Jennifer Brown
The Denver Post

Medicare's finances have been strengthened by the new law setting in motion broad changes to the nation's health-care system.

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is announcing a new national strategy for combatting HIV and AIDS on Tuesday, aimed at stopping new infections and increasing access to care for people living with the virus.

Associated Press Writer Erica Werner

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, to run Medicare and Medicaid.

By Anne Warhover
The Denver Post

As national health care reform makes its way to Colorado, innumerable questions, excitement and anxiety, political maneuvering, intense media scrutiny, and a constitutional challenge from the state attorney general's office will greet its arrival. The one thing on which we can all agree is that these reforms will reshape what, how and to whom health care is delivered — and at what cost — for generations to come.

For nearly a decade now, the effort to reform doctors’ training has been focused almost exclusively on the number of hours spent at the hospital. In 2003, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the organization responsible for accrediting American medical residency programs, issued its first set of guidelines, limiting residents to 80 hours of work per week.

If you have any kind of chronic medical condition and you’ve been shopping for health insurance, you know how insanely difficult it is to find an insurer that will cover you at all, let alone at an affordable rate.

Gov. Bill Ritter and legislative Democrats say they can’t wait on Washington for health care reform.