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Report: Transgender Coloradans still struggle to receieve adequate health care

“To go to the place where I felt I could get care, which was the VA, and to be denied was awful. It was so awful, I didn’t step foot in a VA for the next three years.”

Udall: ‘I relish the competition’

By Steve Lipsher and Marianne Goodland Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, enduring a bruising battle in the form of a challenge from Republican Congressman Cory...

Statetap: Affordable Care hack

CU Boulder is the newest large employer in the country to cut workers' hours to skirt the Affordable Care Act requirement to provide health insurance to part-time employees.

Maligned ‘Obamacare’ succeeding big at pushing down insurance policy rate hikes

  One of the main goals of the Affordable Care Act is to stabilize the individual insurance market, where high and volatile rates for decades...

Beauprez focuses on federal issues in Colorado gubernatorial race

Back in January former Republican Congressman Bob Beauprez said he couldn’t decide wether to run for U.S. senator or governor of Colorado. Nine months later, in the home stretch of his gubernatorial race against incumbent Democrat John Hickenlooper, it appears Beauprez has taken something of a combo approach — bringing federal issues into a race to lead the state, time and time again.

Women for Udall talk priorities — health care and voter mobilization

  A group of female business owners joined Congresswoman Diana DeGette and Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards at local woman-owned restaurant Fire on the Mountain...

Flattery: Karl Rove tweaked our reporting for a Crossroads ad

Let's play a fun game, what single word makes these two sentences different? "On the eastern plains, patients now outnumber their doctors 5,000 to one." "On...

Udall talks Not My Boss’s Business Act

DENVER — Senator Mark Udall joined women's health advocates today to discuss his newest bill, which would effectively overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's recent...

Wiretap: Percentage of Americans without health insurance way down

"Thanks Obamacare!" It may remain a political hot potato -- forever -- but the controversial law appears to be doing exactly what it was intended to do.

New polls show Gardner losing ground on oil & gas, healthcare...

Way more people know Cory Gardner's name than in March, but what used to be split approval of the candidate has moved south.