In the United States, seeking and affording care is a risky venture. The central purpose of the healthcare industry should be to equitably provide care people need at an affordable cost. It should provide services that heal individuals and families and keep people safe and healthy. Instead, much of our healthcare system has evolved to …

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By Thomas Buckley My oncologist asked: “Polycythemia Vera. Do you know what that means?” Earlier, I lived in blissful ignorance, unaware I potentially carried a myeloproliferative neoplasm encoded within my DNA. “Yes,” I answered, “A rare form of blood cancer, incurable, not necessarily fatal, provided it’s treated.” At 31, I thought I had life figured …

But with the Taxpayer's Bill of Right's flaws becoming harder to ignore, efforts to skirt or reform it are building.

Despite claims by my U.S. representative, Gabe Evans, that my Medicaid and access to care would be unaffected by H.R. 1, I now have proof to the contrary.

Higher premiums and losses in coverage weigh on patients as Denver Health physicians expect to see more uninsured patients.

By the time testing confirmed a patient's permanent inner ear damage after a procedure, she said, she had missed the short filing deadline under Colorado’s Governmental Immunity Act, known as CGIA.

Overall profit margins ranged from a high of 33% at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital to a low of -182% at CommonSpirit St. Francis-Interquest, which opened in Colorado Springs that year.

By Ali Rakestraw I’m a family physician and lifelong Coloradan, and I’m watching a health care crisis unfold in real time. Every day, I see patients struggling to afford the care they desperately need — and it’s about to get much worse. The federal government has slashed Medicaid funding, let Affordable-Care-Act enhanced subsidies expire, and …

United against corporate healthcare greed.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, also known as H.R. 1, will block refugees and asylees from Medicare and Medicaid, among other restrictions

Header image by Hush Naidoo on Unsplash As the president of Voices for Progress, I work with a national network of business owners, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, prominent leaders, and, most importantly,...

Colorado cannot remain dependent on the federal government to support the child care needs of Colorado families.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Jan 21, 2026 CONTACT: Priya Telang Consumer advocates view health insurance enrollments with caution; Coloradans keeping coverage only due to State help while GOP drives ACA into the ground  DENVER – Today Connect for Health Colorado, the state’s ACA marketplace, announced that approximately 2% fewer Colorado families and small businesses enrolled …

As Coloradans confront soaring health costs, a bipartisan House vote Thursday moved to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies and avert widespread coverage losses.

The Senate rejected legislation to extend ACA tax credits, essentially guaranteeing millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Coloradans will see a steep rise in costs beginning in 2026.

Without congressional action, PTC enhancements will expire at the end of 2025. This will cause millions —many of these lowest-income enrollees especially — to become uninsured, or to face impossible c...

For the past year, the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative’s Community Advisory Board (CAB) has been listening to people across Colorado about how health information is shared. We’ve heard that many people: Don’t have control over which parts of their health information are shared. Struggle to manage their information across different systems. Want providers to see the right information when they need it. Here's the background: Contexture, Colorado’s Health Information Exchange, curren...

November 12, 2025 To the Honorable Jeff Hurd, As millions of families across the country struggle to pay for the high and rising cost of health care, we are urging you to oppose any deal to reopen the government that does not extend the enhancements to the premium tax credit. These crucial enhanced premium tax …

Tonight, the Republican-led U.S. Senate voted to break the filibuster in order to reopen the government, without a deal to secure affordable healthcare by extending ACA tax credits. The deal included a promise by the Senate to vote on an extension of enhanced premium tax credits in December, even though open enrollment for the ACA market began on November 1.

The state says because Congress has not re-authorized tax credits to subsidize the cost of health insurance on state marketplaces, many consumers are facing a huge increase.

The state says because Congress has not re-authorized tax credits to subsidize the cost of health insurance on state marketplaces, many consumers are facing a huge increase.

MEDIA RELEASE Oct 27, 2025 Consumer Advocates Blast New Skyrocketing Health Insurance Rates Caused by GOP’s Big Ugly Bill & Failure to Extend Tax Credits Statewide net average premium to increase by 101%; direct result of Trump-led policies DENVER –  Today, the Colorado Department of Insurance announced new health insurance rates for 2026, and the …

By Sophia Hennessy The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most opaque industries in the country. Drugs are arbitrarily priced, profits are maximized, industry players point fingers at each other to deflect blame and patients suffer at the expense of corporate greed. In 2024, more than half of Coloradans reported being worried about being able to …

Even if people qualify for financial help with their hospital bills, the care they receive may not be covered.