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John Suthers: I don’t understand some Republicans on the hospital provider...

  COLORADO SPRINGS — Lawmakers wrap up their work in Denver next week, but the largest battle waged during the legislative session remains in a...

Hospital provider fee bill survives furious House challenge

  With just 13 days to go in the 2016 legislative session, the House today held its long-awaited debate on whether to reclassify a billion-dollar...

Colorado is in Americans for Prosperity’s ‘persuasion universe’

  BRIGHTON, CO — It's an unseasonably warm Wednesday in early April, and a handful of activists in green Americans for Prosperity T-shirts are reading...

House panel advances hospital provider fee bill, Hickenlooper praises GOP support

  A Democratically controlled House panel this week advanced a bill that would reclassify Colorado's hospital provider fee into an enterprise, freeing up more money...

How Colorado’s schools could see another $90 million in revenue

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Todd Engdahl on March 29, 2016 The outcome of a high-stakes legislative fight over health care spending could increase...

Why GOP Sen. Larry Crowder sponsoring a hospital provider fee bill...

  Well, it happened. Lawmakers in Denver finally introduced a bill that would reclassify the state's hospital provider fee into a standalone enterprise. Doing so will...

Hospital provider fee negotiations are in the works — or are...

  Legal wrangling over the constitutionality of reclassifying a billion-dollar hospital program to free up money in Colorado's budget might be over, but the political...

Democrats gear up to fight for a hospital provider fee bill

Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman announced Monday that reclassifying the state’s hospital provider fee as an enterprise meets constitutional muster, restarting conversations among lawmakers...

5 reactions to Cynthia Coffman’s hospital provider fee bomb

  Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman's office dropped a news bombshell at the state Capitol on the eve of the Colorado caucuses— when most eyes are turned...

What’s Colorado’s hospital provider fee, who cares and why?

This year, three words have dominated the political debate under the gold dome of the Colorado Capitol: Hospital Provider Fee. It's become a political battle, a legal battle,...