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Colorado justices consider whether to uphold $9.2 million jury verdict for man’s botched surgery
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After a Denver jury awarded a man $9.2 million for his severely botched surgery, a trial judge found half a dozen reasons to override the much lower limit in state law and give the plaintiff the entire amount as jurors intended. This week, however, the Colorado Supreme Court questioned whether one of the judge’s cited…
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Conversion therapy has no place in Colorado
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For the past three years, legislators in Colorado have worked to ban conversion therapy, a dangerous and discredited practice where licensed mental health professionals try to change a young person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. For the past three years, I’ve sat next to – and listened to – survivors’ saddening and terrifying stories in…
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Shannon: Stand up to fears, half-truths on ColoradoCare
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Can the business community count on Congress to fix our ridiculously complex and expensive health insurance system if we give it more time? Is there a viable alternative coming from the American Medical Association or the Chamber of Commerce? No. Major social change always starts at the grassroots level. That is why the states must…
