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New Colorado health care survey shows growing concern over affordability and...

Newly released findings from a wide-ranging survey of health needs among Coloradans show that the percentage of those without insurance has remained flat, but...

Littwin: Still tilting at Obamacare, as the numbers pile up

You don't have be a mathematician, or a scientist, to understand the numbers. Any way you add them up, it looks as if Obamacare...

Thanks Obamacare: 9.7M gained insurance, rate of uninsured lowest in 50...

The economy-wrecking doom Obamacare was predicted to visit upon the nation has yet to arrive, but the National Center for Health Statistics reports that...

Wiretap: As if ‘Brown v. Board of Ed’ never happened

"Segregation as it is practiced today may be different than it was 60 years ago, it is no less pernicious."

Littwin: Because being uninsured is horrible

You've heard the numbers. You've seen the smiles. The axis has shifted, if just slightly. And the Obamacare narrative -- once all about the...

Chart: Obamacare as presented by The Commonwealth Fund

For 100 years the Fund has been working to deliver better health care to more Americans, especially to the poor, the elderly, the sick. Its simple chart on the Affordable Care Act is damning commentary on the government shutdown.

Independence Institute on Obamacare: It’s not about the Commerce Clause

The Independence Institute, a Denver-based free-market think tank that has lead the charge in Colorado against the Affordable Care Act, has filed what it is calling two "potentially game changing" briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court. The court this week is hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the two-year-old law.

Lunchtime links: Wealthy Republican lawmakers want tax cuts; Americans want jobs

The Bush tax cuts, which will disproportionately benefit millionaire Washington DC lawmakers in relation to the rest of the nation's population, are a low...

Denver uninsured living nightmare vision of present health care system

As health care reform legislation begins to take shape in states around the country, the Denver Post today presents a picture of how the...

Reducing abortions by expanding health coverage

Last week, Colorado Republicans opposed a bill that would expand health coverage for maternity and contraception partly on the grounds that some contraception terminates...