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Colorado health insurance exchange seeks another $125 million to implement Obamacare

Of the $125 million more wanted by staff of the exchange, which is called Connect for Health Colorado, $14 million would be earmarked for outreach. The organization estimates that 90 percent of Coloradans don’t know about the exchange, what it does or how to use it.

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A New Direction In Driving Trends

After a 60 year boom, driving is on the decline in the U.S. and no likely scenario shows it returning to previous levels of growth. 

Here’s that Rx refill you didn’t order

Wednesday, October 24, 2012
By | Danny Katz
Director

 

Is your pharmacy refilling your prescription without your knowledge or approval, and billing your insurance company for the cost?

Result | Health Care

656 Participate in Forums about CO Health Benefit Exchange

656 Coloradans participated in CoPIRG-oragnized forums designed to raise the voice of Coloradans around the design and implementation of the Colorado Health Benefit Exchange. 

News Release | CoPIRG | Health Care

656 Participate in Forums about CO Health Benefit Exchange

640 Coloradans participated in CoPIRG-organized forums designed to raise the voice of Coloradans around the design and implementation of the Colorado Health Benefit Exchange. 

Media Hit | Health Care

Healthy Input

To this point, state Senate Bill 200 has probably been best known locally as the measure that divided Monument Rep. Amy Stephens, the bill's sponsor, from the most anti-"Obamacare" members of her Republican Party. But the exchange, signed into law in June, actually exists as more than a political issue.

Issue | Health Care

Making Health Care Work Better

The fight for health care reform is in Denver, and so are the health care industry’s lobbyists. At stake is how we set up a new insurance marketplace in Colorado — the single biggest tool we have to clean up health care.

Media Hit | Health Care

Local Health-care education is urged

The more people and small employers know about the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the easier it will be for them to find the best health-insurance plan for themselves or their employees, an organizer for the Colorado Public Interest Research Group said Monday.

Media Hit | Health Care

More Calls for Resignation of "Insider" From Industry Heavy Health Board

A second large consumer group representing 500,000 Coloradans joined the call Tuesday for the resignation of a “health industry insider” from Colorado’s new health exchange board.

Media Hit | Health Care

Some Question Makeup of Colorado's New Health-insurance Exchange Board

A consumer group called for a member of the new state health insurance exchange board to resign Monday, and the author of legislation creating the exchange said she was unhappy with the board's makeup, casting shadows over a first meeting.

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