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Auditors find ‘eligibility risks’ in Denver’s $152 million health care plan for city staff
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Denver auditors found that the Office of Human Resources needs better enrollment oversight over the eligibility of city employees receiving its tax-driven health care plans. Denver contracts with UnitedHealthcare and Kaiser Permanente insurance companies for its self-funded health care plans. Its insurance plan covers over 20,000 current or retired city employees, and their designated dependents.…
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Polis comes out strong for universal health care in ad
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Jared Polis has a new ad touting his strong support for universal health care. The 2016 election might suggest it’s a lost cause as far as the Colorado electorate goes. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate and sitting congressman touts Medicare-for-All, a load-bearing pillar of universal health care. A similarly purposed Amendment 69, the so-called ColoradoCare single-payer plan,…
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Lucia Guzman, John Hickenlooper among One Colorado’s Ally Award winners
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Two Capitol Democrats with a history of blazing trails for LGBTQ equality are among the recipients of One Colorado Education Fund’s annual Ally Awards, the advocacy organization announced this week. Gov. John Hickenlooper is one of three Ally Award winners, and Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, a Denver Democrat, is slated to receive One Colorado’s…
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First new Colorado law of 2018 could help nurses travel to and from other states
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What very well could be the first bill to pass in the next legislative session holds some mighty big stakes for Colorado’s more than 86,000 nurses who have licenses that allow them to work in more than two dozen other states. A group of legislators were meeting with nurses at the state Capitol Thursday about…
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Lynne schedules town halls on healthcare across the state this week
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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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Colorado Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne raises more than $384,000 in Democratic gubernatorial race
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Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne, a Democratic candidate for governor, plans to report bringing in $384,335 during the most recent fundraising quarter, her first since jumping in the crowded primary, her campaign said Thursday. The former Kaiser Permanente executive plans to report her campaign had 792 individual donors and had $321,558 cash on hand at the end…
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6 Things to Know About Colorado Gubernatorial Hopeful Donna Lynne
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Here are six things to know about Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne as the Democrat makes it official Thursday that she’s running for governor of Colorado: ? Before being sworn in as Colorado’s 49th lieutenant governor on May 12, 2016, Lynne was executive vice president of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals,…
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VIDEO: Former Sen. Pat Steadman receives One Colorado’s lifetime achievement award
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LF0pZkmsvU Pat Steadman, the former state senator and public citizen extraordinaire, was honored with a lifetime achievement award last weekend at One Colorado Education Fund’s annual Ally Awards, which honors those who have worked for the rights and good of LGBTQ Coloradans and their families were: Term limits kept Steadman from running again last year.…
