By Ashley Wheeland, Health Policy Director for One Colorado One of the most important priorities for any family is being able to access quality, affordable health care. We all get colds, we all have preventive care needs, and we all need health care coverage. And when...
by Matt Valeta, Health Policy Fellow Colorado’s rate review program has protected consumers from rate increases as high as 24 percent. Established in 2008, rate review allows the commissioner of insurance to review all health insurance rate increases in the...
Copay-free preventive care: $0 out of your pocket for things like colonoscopies, mammograms, and birth control. It’s one of the most popular provisions of the Affordable Care Act, but is it really true? Thanks to new HHS guidance released last week, we can...
by Matt Valeta, Health Policy Fellow (Originally Posted at healthpolicysolutions.org) Young adults: What defines us? Taking pictures of our food and fixing computer problems for our parents? Unfortunately lacking health insurance may be the most common characteristic...
Last week, Families USA awarded CCHI’s executive director, Dede de Percin, with the Health Advocate of the Year award the annual Families USA Health Action Conference. The award, presented every year since 1998, recognizes outstanding contributions on behalf of our...
A hospital stay is no fun to begin with, and the bill you get later can quite literally add insult to injury- especially if you are uninsured. This was the reality for Robert*, a man who called CCHI in November after having undergone emergency surgery during a gap in...
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