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Tag: Health Care
The HCA-United Impass: How We Got Here
On the first of September this year, for profit HCA, a health care provider with a 35% market share and the highest profit margin...
Tens Of Thousands of Patients Stranded
Starting tomorrow, tens of thousands of Denver area patients will not longer be able to go to their usual hospitals and clinics without paying...
Denver Public Schools Strike Possible
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...
Musgrave Holds Congressional Hearing; Local Media Starry-Eyed
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave held a hearing in Loveland yesterday to take public comment on health care reform. Today, The Coloradan published Hearing gives Musgrave...
“It Sounds Like Chaos.”
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...
Legislators Try To Save Medicaid HMO Service
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...
It’s Good for the CEO–But for You?
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 Care Options for the Poor
With the legislature's recent vote to keep prenatal care on the list of services available for illegal immigrants, the question becomes: how good a...
Colorado Loses Last Medicaid HMO
Health maintenance organizations, HMOs for short, were supposed to be the cost cutting tool that would revolutionize how health care was delivered in the...