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The Denver Classroom Teachers Association (the teacher's union in the Denver Public Schools) has "declared an impasse in our bargaining with the district." Scheduled...
Most stories about Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's prodigious campaign fundraising focus on how she's tapped into conservative ideological donors and garnered the help from...
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave held a hearing in Loveland yesterday to take public comment on health care reform. Today, The Coloradan published Hearing gives Musgrave...
When told by CEO Don Hall of Colorado Access about what would happen when 65,000 Colorado Medicaid recipients were transfered from the last Medicaid...
Colorado's only Medicaid HMO provider, Colorado Access, recently announced that it would no longer be providing Medicaid HMO services effective August 31, 2006, because...
The $33 billion leveraged buyout by private investors of the mammoth hospital chain, HCA, announced today could mean layoffs of staff and higher prices...
Health maintenance organizations, HMOs for short, were supposed to be the cost cutting tool that would revolutionize how health care was delivered in the...