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Guest Post: It’s time to end University of Colorado’s onerous...

Tuesday morning, University of Colorado-Boulder graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty members participated in a walkout to protest student fees. Organized by the Committee on...

Littwin: What are the chances a pro-business moderate can win a...

I just read Corey Hutchins' sit-down with Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne on her decision to run for the Democratic nomination for governor. And I'm...

Bill would fine companies dodging healthcare costs

House Democrats Tuesday took another stand against big corporations that try to foist employee health care costs onto taxpayers. But the bill’s proponents and...

Here’s what happened to Colorado HealthOP

Debbie Lewis was in the emergency room Friday when she found out her health insurance carrier is going out of business. She read the email on her iPad,...

Supreme Court upholds ‘Obamacare’ federal subsidies

In a 6-3 ruling today, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld a crucial provision of the Affordable Care Act that allows the...

Homebrew: Denver school-enrollment zones didn’t fix segregation

School zone Denver Public Schools introduced enrollment zones to expand school-choice, increase diversity and boost performance. That was five years ago. Today, schools are just...

Obama lauds Obamacare ahead of Supreme Court decision

The Supreme Court is expected to hand down an Affordable Care Act decision this month that could cut the federal insurance subsidies of some 8...

Patients ambushed by surprise medical bills

Frank Lacks, 51, suffered from intense abdominal pain, so he went to his local emergency room at the Aurora Medical Center. He felt confident his...

Holiday buying guide: Trans health insurance

Just in time for the latest Affordable Care Act open enrollment, which runs until February 15, 2015, LGBTQ advocacy group One Colorado has released a...

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...