At the Capitol

Every year, CCHI fights for policies and bills that improve health care for Coloradans during the legislative session and year round within Colorado’s agencies that oversee health care. CCHI ensures consumers interests are advanced and protected in private insurance, Medicaid, hospitals and physicians’ offices, and access to prescription drugs. We empower Coloradans to use their own health care experiences to make positive change.

Our Work at the Capitol

Amplifying the voices of Coloradans struggling to access the health care they need and working collaboratively with our members and partners has helped us achieve many victories and advance good policies while guarding against harmful ones. We ensure that policies we help pass are implemented effectively through regulations and state agencies.

Before each legislative session, CCHI works with our members and consumers we engage to identify policy priorities that guide our work at the Capitol. For 2021, we identified our main priorities were to address health care coverage and affordability, health care costs, access to care, consumer protection, and improving social determinants of health and health equity. 

To learn more about CCHI’s activity and successes during the 2021 session, take a look at our 2021 Legislative Scorecard. You can also catch up on our work this year and from prior years:

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CCHI 2023 Legislative Agenda

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Spanish CCHI 2023 Legislative Agenda

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CCHI 2021 Legislative Agenda

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2021 Legislative Scorecard

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Our Work

Protecting Consumers

Coloradans should not face financial hardship because they need access to health care or because they have received health care services. CCHI works to protect consumers from health care industry practices that jeopardize the health and financial security of Colorado families.

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Access & Affordability

All Coloradans should have access to the health care they need, when they need it, and be able to afford it. While the Affordable Care Act has helped many Coloradans obtain health insurance, we know there are many that still struggle to access and afford the care they need because they cannot find a doctor or because the out-of-pocket costs are too high.

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Social Determinants of Health

Structural barriers based on race, ethnicity, income, LGBTQ status, and age among others, prevent individuals from getting the health care they need and deserve. We work toward health equity by addressing systems of oppression and barriers that lead to disparate health outcomes.

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Reimagining Health Care

Structural barriers based on race, ethnicity, income, LGBTQ status, and age among others, prevent individuals from getting the health care they need and deserve. We work toward health equity by addressing systems of oppression and barriers that lead to disparate health outcomes.

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Prescription Drug Affordability

Every year health care costs continue to rise, becoming an even bigger percentage of our economy and an increasingly unsustainable portion of family budgets. We are working to control costs and hold the health care industry accountable to patients.

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Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
303 E 17th Ave, Suite 400
Denver, CO 80203

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