Health care

Legislative health-care debates commence in the 75th General Assembly

Several health-care bills — including two scheduled for their first hearings this week — are set to reignite the debate this legislative session on whether the benefits of greater coverage mandates are equal to the greater costs they’ll bring.

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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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