2024 CCHI Event Report: LEGISLATIVE KICK-OFF

For those of you who were unable to attend CCHI and CCLP’s joint legislative kick-off event this past Tuesday at the Colorado Health Capitol, please enjoy this report on the evening’s affairs.  To set the scene, we were thrilled to have over 140 total attendees with...

How worms understand tree canopies: an important lesson in policy

By: Sophia Hennessy Everything looks different depending on where you are positioned.  A bird sees leaves. A squirrel sees branches. A worm sees roots. All these perspectives are true and legitimate. The bird, the squirrel, and the worm are all looking at a tree. In...

Healthcare 101

Sophia Hennessy On my first day of work I read an office post emblazoned, “The system is not broken, it was built this way.” Before starting at CCHI, I conceptualized U.S. healthcare as a ponderous and inequitable system. I had a general picture of an underinvestment...

Public charge X Deservingness

Kat Gruschow, Policy Fellow On September 22, 2023, the Biden Administration issued a rule that finally codified a longstanding definition of “public charge,” a sub-regulatory facet of immigration policy, which the Trump Administration tried to harshen in 2018. Then,...

Hospital Discounted Care

http://cohealthinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/BLOG-2-AUDIO-10_30_23-3.06-PM.mp3 Sophia Hennessy | Oct 27, 2023 About a month ago my friend booked a day-of ticket to fly out to Colorado and see me – it was the type of heady impulsive behavior that I...
What does it mean to be an “advocate”?

What does it mean to be an “advocate”?

Kat Gruschow, Policy Fellow My roommate and I have a lot in common. We had the same eighth-grade French teacher. We accidentally wear matching outfits. Our dogs are best friends. Recently we discovered yet another similarity. Despite both of us having completed...
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