In the News Ciella Sifirri, Colorado Times Recorder In response to the pandemic–induced budget crisis, a coalition of progressive groups is calling on Colorado legislators to pass a temporary emergency tax increase on people who make more than $250,000 per year. At...
In the News Eric Galatas, Public News Service DENVER — A coalition of 135 Colorado organizations is urging state lawmakers to use all tools in their toolbox to blunt the most serious economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Lost revenues are projected to...
In the News Walecia Konrad, CBS News When Grace Thomas ran a high fever and had trouble breathing in March, she headed to the emergency room. With a history of asthma, the 26-year-old Denver resident was familiar with respiratory distress, but this was different. Both...
In the News Jakob Rodgers, The Gazette The doctor will see you now — just not in person. Seeking a safe way to salvage what’s left of their plummeting revenues, physicians, specialists and even physical therapists have turned to telemedicine in unprecedented fashion...
In the News Tripp Baltz, Bloomberg Law Sponsors of a lightning-rod public option bill in Colorado are scuttling the insurance measure this year because of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic upheaval it’s wreaking in the state. It’s not feasible for health-care...
In the News Jason Salzman, Colorado Times Recorder Earlier this year, just before the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration launched a program allowing states opt out of traditional Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for low-income people,...
