healthcare
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Parties argue over mundane, salacious issues as DaVita trial looms
With weeks to go until the high-profile white collar trial, attorneys for the United States and for Fortune 500 company DaVita, Inc. clashed in a downtown Denver courtroom, arguing over the admissibility of expert testimony, the multimillion-dollar compensation for DaVita’s CEO-turned-defendant, and the government’s withholding of information. The parties on Thursday even disputed whether the…
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Union ratifies King Soopers’ contract; strike officially ends
Members of metro Denver area United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 voted Monday to approve a new three-year contract offered by Kroger Co., which owns all King Soopers and City Market stores in Colorado, according to a late Monday news release. The agreement includes wage hikes of up to $5 per hour for some…
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Little progress made in King Soopers strike negotiations, officials say
Both the Kroger Co. and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 continued to badmouth the other side Monday as the King Soopers strike stretched into a sixth day, but at least they were still talking at the negotiating table. About 8,400 union workers walked out of 77 metro Denver area King Soopers and City…
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After years of decline, uninsured rate for children stagnates in Colorado
by Jessica Seaman, The Denver Post via Tribune News Service The number of children in Colorado with health insurance has increased for almost a decade, but now the decline in the state’s youth uninsured rate is stagnating – and advocates fear more children could lose coverage due to a rule change proposed by the Trump…
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Kansas Medicaid expansion in doubt despite governor support
TOPEKA, Kan. – Democratic and moderate Republicans lawmakers worked together last year to try to make Kansas the latest state to expand Medicaid, only to see their bipartisan effort rewarded with a veto from former conservative GOP Gov. Sam Brownback. The election this month of a governor who supports Medicaid expansion seemed to remove the…
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Lynne schedules town halls on healthcare across the state this week
If you’ve got healthcare issues, Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne wants to hear about them. The state’s chief operating officer and a candidate succeed John Hickenlooper as governor is planning a series of “health care town halls” Thursday through Saturday with stops in nine locations across the state. The first is Thursday evening in Denver, and…
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Hickenlooper’s health plan lauded in hard-hit Colorado mountain counties
Eagle County Commissioner Jill Ryan spent more than a decade working for the Colorado Department of Public Health before entering politics, but the job change hasn’t meant much of subject change as she continues to focus intensely on runaway healthcare and insurance costs in the mountain-resort communities she represents. “People on the individual market have…