Today, the State Board of Human Services unanimously voted to approve a rule that will make important changes to Colorado’s Aid to the Needy Disabled (AND) program. But before I expand on the good news, I want to provide some background: The federal cash assistance...
20th Anniversary Milestones: How CCLP Mitigated a Statewide ‘Disaster’
In celebrating the 20th anniversary of Colorado Center on Law and Policy, we are publishing a series of vignettes about the organization’s most significant accomplishments. Colorado has suffered its share of deadly natural disasters over the last 20 years from the...
Elisabeth Arenales’ speech for GIH’s Andy Hyman Award
Here is the acceptance speech from Elisabeth Arenales, Director of CCLP’s Health Care Program, upon receiving Grantmakers In Health’s Andy Hyman Award during the organization’s annual conference in Chicago on June 22: Thank you to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...
National group honors CCLP’s health care heroine
Relentless. Definitive. Unparalleled. Those are just a few adjectives that colleagues have used to describe Elisabeth Arenales, now Director of Colorado Center on Law and Policy’s Health Care Program. On June 22, Grantmakers In Health honored Elisabeth’s work in...
2018 Legislative Wrap-Up: Health Care
Health care is no less contentious in Colorado than in the rest of the United States, with rising costs, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid galvanizing and sometimes polarizing the legislature. With health being such a hot-button topic, results were mixed...
Colorado takes steps to shore up markets and protect consumers
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) eight years ago, Colorado has jumped on opportunities to improve health care access for its residents, expanding Medicaid coverage and creating a state-based health insurance exchange where Coloradans can take...
Medicaid work requirements advance a harmful narrative
Our state’s Medicaid program, Health First Colorado, is an investment in the health of our communities. The program exists to ensure that poverty is not a barrier to the health care services that Coloradans need to concentrate in school, excel in the workplace, and...
Bill offers Rx for drug-price transparency
The high cost of prescription drugs is driving health insurance premiums higher, and financially draining consumers and their families who rely on these medications. In fact, one in 10 Coloradans don’t fill their prescriptions due to costs. Meanwhile, prescription...
Report sheds light on Colorado health costs
Colorado has a problem with health care costs. While this is not news to many, a new report released by the Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) tells the tale in numbers. The report reviewed total costs across all health care services in five different...
Legislative Preview 2018: Health Care
In 2018, CCLP's Health Program will work to preserve access to Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+), which are both cost-effective public programs. In addition, we will participate in efforts to increase pricing transparency and reduce costs in the private...