health care coverage
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Colorado urges insurers to ease rules for federal workers hit by shutdown
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With more than 50,000 federal employees in the state furloughed or working without pay during the shutdown, the Colorado Division of Insurance urged insurance carriers this week to help employees facing financial hardships. Among the suggested relief for federal employees: The purpose of the bulletin is to encourage carriers to take actions to avoid cancellations…
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Time to say ‘enough’ to attacks on children’s health care coverage
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Of the many complicated health care issues we face, one of the most immediate threats – and one that is easily solved – is the looming loss of coverage for more than 75,000 Colorado kids and 800 pregnant moms who depend on the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program. CHIP provides low-cost health insurance coverage to…
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Health care is a necessary condition of freedom for all
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The yoke of bad health is a freedom killer. Not only does disease limit opportunity, it eliminates choices available only to the healthy. These facts begin for me in 1934 when my mother, a bright and lively girl, was struck out of nowhere by the auto immune disease juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. At 13 she had…
