Tag: Health Insurance
Times sees Colorado disappointment over health reform as emblematic
In a front-page story that positions Colorado as representative, the New York Times today reports that voters here "crave reform of health care and...
Searching and failing to find maternity coverage in Colorado
In advance of a bill in the state legislature that would require Colorado’s insurance companies to cover maternity, The Colorado Independent searched for non-employer-based maternity health insurance. How did it go? It was unbelievably frustrating.
GOP Rep. Lamborn unironically laments lack of civility at town hall
U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, didn't join the six other members of the Colorado delegation at a health care town hall on Saturday...
Democrats target major health insurers as monopolies
Health insurance companies for decades have been exempt from federal anti-trust laws and are exploiting that privilege to generate enormous profits at the expense of patients, Senate Democrats charged Wednesday. The laws allow companies to feign competition while really colluding to set prices. The Seanate debate is fueling calls to make a public health insurance option part of any reform bill. Lawmakers — including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) — want to repeal the anti-trust exemption as part of broader efforts this year to overhaul the nation’s dysfunctional health care system.
Sen. Mitchell: Your privacy unfairly burdens business
How does it shake down when Colorado's Republican senators are forced to choose, for the record, between protecting the rights of individuals and the prerogatives of business?
UPDATED:Health Care Reform Needs Leaders, Not Apologists
As the U.S. government announced that health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2006, the Colorado General Assembly announced that it will take several...
Painful Choices: Rural Docs Must Answer a Different Call
When he arrived in a rural area to practice medicine, Dr. Mark Deutchman saw his first patient before he finished unloading the moving van.
"They...
Painful Choices: Rural Care Pits Profits Against Access
Three companies tried to make money running the Washington County Clinic - Banner Health Care, Rose Medical Center and Colorado Plains Medical Center.
All failed,...
Painful Choices: Rural Health Care Offers Few Options
In rural Colorado, nurse practitioner Becky Hutcheson battles a health care system she calls "very broken."AKRON, Colo.
Kent Vance has thick hands that bear the...
Lack of Health Insurance Hits Home
I passed a milestone in America's health care crisis recently. I skipped an appointment with the eye doctor because I lost insurance coverage when...