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Opinion: The tragedy of medical ethics 25 Aug 2013 | 04:04 am
By Richard D. Lamm The difficulty of medical ethics and culture is that it allows, indeed it makes morally obligatory, practices and behaviors that increase health care spending without regard to oth...
Opinion: Insurance rates in and out of exchange reflect competitive market 22 Aug 2013 | 12:35 am
By Bob Semro Colorado’s Division of Insurance has approved 541 health insurance plans offered by 18 companies for insurance coverage next year. Of these, 242 plans offered by 13 insurance companies ...
Workers pay more even as health cost increases ease 21 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon Health insurance premiums climbed just 4 percent this year over last, but employees feel bogged down because they’re paying a bigger share of their health costs, according t...
Lifting the veil on wildly varied surgery charges 21 Aug 2013 | 09:02 pm
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon Andrea Mahoney was skiing her last run of the day at Breckenridge in January when she heard her knee pop. It sounded bad. The diagnosis she got from her doctor confirmed h...
Opinion: Biggest health risk facing Colorado’s youth is how many are uninsured 21 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am
By Denali Johnson With summer ending and school starting once again, it’s a perfect time to take a look at the health of adolescents in Colorado. Our state is home to more than 675,000 adolescents, a...
Rates higher in resort areas, college towns 17 Aug 2013 | 03:25 am
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon People living in resort areas of Colorado will have to pay higher health insurance rates than those in other regions when plans start being sold through the state’s health e...
Opinion: The most important health initiative in Colorado history 14 Aug 2013 | 01:52 am
By Dr. Jan Kief Gov. John Hickenlooper recently announced the most important and ambitious public health initiative in Colorado’s history. The State of Health Initiative aims to make Colorado the hea...
Colorado approves 242 health plans for exchange 13 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon Colorado’s Division of Insurance has approved 242 plans from 13 carriers for the state’s health exchange, Connect for Health Colorado, which is slated to open on Oct. 1. De...
Tech errors prompt red light warning for exchange 13 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon Just seven weeks before the Oct. 1 launch of Colorado’s health exchange, managers said that their IT systems are not getting accurate data from state Medicaid systems, promp...
REACH: Interval training so bad it’s good 13 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
By Mark Siebert Do you want to get the most calorie burn out of your workout? Are you finding that you are hitting a plateau? Interval training could be a great option. Interval training is altern...
