Health care

Holistic health practitioners fight back against HB25-1220’s threat to medical freedom

A new bill moving through the Colorado General Assembly, HB25-1220, is drawing sharp criticism from holistic health practitioners and nutritionists, who argue it amounts to government overreach that could criminalize alternative health practices and limit consumer choice.

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Report on hospital facility fees could stir new health-care regulatory efforts

A legislatively mandated report on hospital-system facility fees that was released Tuesday appears likely to spark a new round of debate on whether the state should limit the fees that opponents call costly and unclear and that hospitals say are vital to offsite operations.

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Parents of medically fragile kids can’t find nurses because the pay is so low. They want Colorado lawmakers to step in. 

Nurses willing to care for medically fragile children and adults — including patients who use feeding tubes, can’t walk or speak, and rarely leave their homes — are hard to find in Colorado. 

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