- Despite news of two confirmed deaths in the Black Forest Fire near Colorado Springs, officials were encouraged by progress against the blaze Thursday.
- A new report on the state's toxicology lab has lawyers calling for appeals.
- Just how closely is Colorado aligning itself with the White House's vision for health care reform? CPR's Eric Whitney breaks it all down.
- Gov. John Hickenlooper started working on his plan soon after the Aurora theater shooting in July. He scheduled a press conference to announce it in December, not knowing the date would fall just days after another mass shooting tragedy in Newtown, Conn.
- The item in question is the so-called “health insurance exchange” Colorado is setting up under the federal health law known as Obamacare. Some Republican leaders in the legislature think the price tag is way too expensive.
- The biggest health care bill of this year’s legislative session is now heading to Governor Hickenlooper’s desk for his signature. But what will the new measure mean for Coloradans?
- It has momentum and the backing of the Governor, but critics inside and outside the capitol say trying to combine economic development with helping the homeless is a bad idea.
- Experience this collaborative series by NPR, Colorado Public Radio and Kaiser Health News.
- The joint state and federal health care program for the poor got its first hearing this week in the state legislature, and no one testified against it.
- Primary care doctors treat a lot of patients for depression, actually, more people get help for that from family doctors than from psychiatrists.
- In a typical year, 700 to 800 Coloradans are seriously injured or killed by guns. That makes doctors a group that is particularly familiar with the consequences when fights, mental illness, or criminal activity involve firearms.
- In all the talk about the big health care overhaul, what’s come to be known as “Obamacare,” there’s one thing you don’t hear a lot about. And that’s that the president gave states an out.
- There’s broad agreement at the state capitol that more needs to be done to help Colorado’s homeless and mentally ill. There’s also agreement that southeastern Colorado could use some economic development. But a proposal by Governor John Hickenlooper to do both in one project isn’t getting much traction.
- For people with mental illnesses, it can be as hard to get treatment for their conditions as to deal with the illness itself. Insurance policies generally don’t pay as generously for mental illnesses as they do for physical ailments, this despite a federal law requiring “parity” in coverage for mental illness and addiction.
- Uncle Sam wants you to email your doctor. A federal law passed in 2009 says that physicians have to start offering their patients online communication, or Medicare will start docking how much it pays them in the future.
- When it comes to the federal health law, most states have taken a wait and see attitude about setting up insurance exchanges. Those are the marketplaces where consumers are supposed to shop for insurance and, if they qualify, get subsidies for coverage.