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| Jun 3, 2026 | States that cover healthcare for immigrants scale back | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Shalina Chatlani, Stateline.org
Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as they grapple with federa... |
| May 3, 2026 | Colorado lawmakers seek short-term fix to fund insurance affordability programs | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Funding for Colorado programs that lower the cost of health insurance is running short by about $140 million, and lawmakers are looking to impose new fees on major insurers and sell bonds to help f... |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Bennet says he’ll seek public option for health insurance if elected Colorado governor | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado gubernatorial candidate and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet announced Friday that he’ll seek a public option for health insurance if elected.
Bennet, who is running for the Democratic nomination,... |
| Jan 23, 2026 | As federal ACA subsidies lapse, blue states offer their own | Blue states — including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Mexico — are offering new state-funded health insurance premium assistance for 2026.
The move blunts the financial impact for consumers of losing enh... |
| Dec 20, 2025 | Coloradans weigh options as health insurance premiums double: ‘If something bad happens, are we going to go bankrupt?’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
As a cancer survivor, Alex Modisette doesn’t want to go without health insurance, but she doesn’t see another option as her family’s monthly costs are set to rise more than 140%.
Modisette, who own... |
| Oct 31, 2025 | Older Coloradans and rural residents face bigger health insurance price hikes | This year, Tami Butters and her husband paid about $500 per month for health insurance for both of them. Next year, the price will double, even with one less person using it.
Butters, 64, expects to pay about $1,000 per month if she keeps t... |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Health insurance premiums to double next year on Colorado’s individual market | Premiums will double next year for Coloradans who buy their health insurance on the state’s individual market, with higher-income families facing increases of $10,000 or more, the Colorado Division of Insurance announced Monday.
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| Oct 23, 2025 | Coloradans still don’t know what they’ll pay for marketplace insurance as open enrollment nears | Less than two weeks from now, Colorado residents looking to buy health insurance through the state’s individual marketplace will be able to choose plans, but they can’t yet see how severe the price increases they face will be.
Typically, Co... |
| Oct 17, 2025 | Coloradans to lose SNAP benefits Nov. 1 if shutdown continues, Polis warns | Colorado families will lose federally funded food assistance Nov. 1 if the government shutdown persists, Gov. Jared Polis warned Friday.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, relies on $120 million from the federal g... |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Many of Colorado’s 54,000 federal civilian workers in limbo amid shutdown, but public lands are open | Tens of thousands of Colorado workers were in limbo Wednesday as the latest partial shutdown of the federal government played out in Washington, D.C., resulting in furloughs across the country.
About 54,300 federal employees work in Colorad... |
| Jul 11, 2025 | Opinion: Emma Pinter and Wendy Buxton-Andrade: The ‘big beautiful bill’ is ugly for Coloradans’ health | Meanwhile, cuts to SNAP, our most effective anti-hunger program, will increase food insecurity and household stress. These cuts will also be devastating to the local rural grocery stores that provide employment as well as community support.... |
| Dec 7, 2024 | Navigating the Health Insurance Maze: Your Guide to Affordable Coverage | The world of health insurance can feel like a labyrinth. Each turn presents new choices, and the stakes are high. Open enrollment is upon us, and for many, it’s a chance to secure a safety net. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace is y... |
| Dec 7, 2024 | The Nursing Home Staffing Mandate: A Tug of War Between Care and Cost | The nursing home industry stands at a crossroads. A new staffing mandate, issued by the Biden administration, aims to ensure that nursing homes provide adequate care for their residents. The rule requires registered nurses to be on-site 24/... |
| Dec 1, 2024 | Sponsored Content | Open Enrollment Is Here: Discover Affordable Options From Anthem In Colorado | Getty ImagesOpen Enrollment Is Here: Discover Affordable Options From Anthem In Colorado
By Matt Pickett | Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado
We all want good health, both for ourselves and for our families. That’s why we center ... |
| Nov 6, 2024 | Business | Several Connect for Health Colorado plans now include UCHealth | UCHealth and its affiliate providers in Northern Colorado now are more accessible on Connect for Health Colorado, the state’s health-insurance exchange, UCHealth announced Monday.
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| Feb 5, 2024 | Health | More states offer health care coverage for certain immigrants, noncitizens | By Nada Hassanein, Stateline.org
Gabriel Henao fled Colombia to escape a guerrilla group who, he said, twice threatened to kill him. After some time in Mexico, he arrived in Colorado in July 2022, settling in Fort Collins.
His severe stomac... |
| Oct 23, 2023 | Health | Colorado estimates $411 million in health insurance savings on individual market, but rates are still going up next year | Premiums for Coloradans who buy their insurance on the individual market will increase in 2024, but by a combined $411 million less than if the state hadn’t taken steps to rein costs in, the Colorado Division of Insurance announced Monday.
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| Jun 25, 2023 | Sponsored Content
Sponsored Content | Medicaid renewals have resumed: What you need to know | When the federal government provided critical health care support for families through the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) nearly all Colorado Medicaid members were able to stay enrolled in their plans regardless of changes in eligib... |
| Jun 18, 2023 | Sponsored Content
Sponsored Content | Medicaid renewals have resumed: What you need to know | When the federal government provided critical health care support for families through the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) nearly all Colorado Medicaid members were able to stay enrolled in their plans regardless of changes in eligib... |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Need health insurance? Colorado marketplace sign-ups end Sunday | If you’re uninsured and want to change that before the end of 2021, time is running out to buy health insurance through the state-run marketplace.
The special open enrollment period, extended because of the pandemic, ends Sunday. Most peopl... |
| Feb 5, 2021 | Special enrollment period opens Monday for uninsured Boulder County residents | Uninsured Boulder County residents can obtain insurance during a special COVID-19 enrollment period that begins Monday.
The special enrollment period, which lasts through May 15, is the result of an executive order signed by President Joe B... |
| Aug 30, 2020 | Colorado’s Medicaid numbers are rising more slowly than expected, but state is on guard for a late surge | Colorado’s Medicaid numbers aren’t surging as fast as predicted amid COVID-fueled joblessness, but the program’s administrators aren’t relaxing yet, since federal decisions and the economy’s unpredictable trajectory could still force them t... |
| Aug 8, 2020 | David Gardner: Finding health insurance on your own | While jobs numbers have recovered somewhat from earlier this year, we have unprecedented levels of unemployment with roughly one in ten Coloradans unable to find work. Unlike most developed-world countries, our health insurance is largely l... |
| Apr 24, 2020 | Colorado’s special health insurance enrollment ends Thursday; 10,000 have signed up so far | Colorado’s extended window to buy health insurance through the exchange ends Thursday, though people who lose a job afterward can sign up later.
Connect for Health Colorado, which runs the state’s health insurance marketplace, estimated abo... |
| Oct 2, 2013 | Day 1 at the 16 state exchanges: Mostly fair with 6 fails, a lot of “try again later” | Good
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From the San Jose Mercury News: On the first day of a six-month open-enrollment period, the Covered California site received 5 million hits by 3 p.m. and averaged 5,000 hits per minute and peaked at 16,0... |
| Sep 5, 2013 | Paul Bunyan and Elvis promote state health insurance exchanges | Minnesota exchange MNsure chose to take an unconventional and humorous approach with its campaign, depicting the misadventures of folklore hero Paul Bunyan and his companion, Babe the Blue Ox. The tagline: “Minnesota, land of 10,000 reasons... |
| Paul Bunyan and Elvis promote state health insurance exchanges | It’s Super Bowl time for health insurance exchange marketers, as they drop millions of dollars on marketing campaigns aimed at residents without health insurance.
Seventeen states have opted to do the heavy lifting for their own online exch... |
| Day 1 at the 16 state exchanges: Mostly fair with 6 fails, a lot of “try again later” | It was a good news/bad news kind of day for the state officials leading the 16 health insurance exchanges that launched (or were supposed to launch) yesterday. Thousands of people wanted to sign up for an account and apply for a health insu... |