Dear CCHI Community, Partners, Members, and Friends, As we come together in the wake of the national election, we recognize a range of emotions and reactions many of us may be having- worry, frustration – and hopefully a renewed commitment to justice. While...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
