As the U.S. government announced that health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2006, the Colorado General Assembly announced that it will take several years to keep a promise to provide health care coverage to all of the state’s residents.…
When he arrived in a rural area to practice medicine, Dr. Mark Deutchman saw his first patient before he finished unloading the moving van.
“They came to get me to help someone who had been hurt in a car
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Three companies tried to make money running the Washington County Clinic – Banner Health Care, Rose Medical Center and Colorado Plains Medical Center.
All failed, said nurse practitioner Becky Hutcheson.
In rural Colorado, nurse practitioner Becky Hutcheson battles a health care system she calls “very broken.”
I passed a milestone in America’s health care crisis recently. I skipped an appointment with the eye doctor because I lost insurance coverage when I got laid off my job.
Colorado Democrats joined 261 other U.S. House members Tuesday in voting for a funding expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The measure passed, but with 151 members voting against it, President Bush’s threatened veto will not likely…
Wal-Mart announced new health care plans for workers Tuesday that could help its 25,000 Colorado employees get better coverage. Health care reform advocates are calling it a step in the right direction.
Employees will be able to choose from…
Health insurance premiums paid by businesses for employees rose 6.1 percent last year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust. The good news: that’s less than they’ve risen in recent…
Sixty percent of private businesses offer health insurance to their employees, according to a study released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And while those businesses employ 71 percent of all private-sector employees, just over half of those…
As the cost of health insurance continues to skyrocket, so do the ranks of people without coverage. There were more uninsured people in 2006 than ever before, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.…
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