Author: John Ingold
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No insurers leaving Colorado health exchange in 2018, commissioner says
After months of worry, Colorado Insurance Commissioner Marguerite Salazar said Wednesday that no insurers are backing out of the state’s health care exchange for 2018, but consumers in the individual insurance market should expect to pay more. Salazar said nine companies filed plans with the state this week to offer individual insurance plans in 2018.…
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Colorado’s Front Range is perfect petri dish for creating hail
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER – The largest hailstone ever recorded in America spent close to an hour aloft in a cloud growing to the size of a small volleyball, then plunged to earth at more than 100 mph,…
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Marijuana sending more teenagers to the emergency room, Children’s Hospital doctor finds
The number of teenagers and young adults going to the emergency room at Children’s Hospital Colorado for what appears to be marijuana-related reasons increased significantly after legalization, a new study by a Children’s doctor found. Dr. Sam Wang said his study contrasts with surveys that suggest youth marijuana use in Colorado has not increased since legalization.…
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Colorado seniors are the fourth-healthiest in the nation, according to new rankings
Colorado’s seniors are the fourth-healthiest in the nation, thanks to high levels of physical activity and low levels of obesity, according to new rankings released this week by the United Health Foundation. “Colorado is one of the states that we look to for what’s going well,” said Dr. Rhonda Randall, the chief medical officer for…
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Colorado law enforcement officers reverse two opiate overdoses per day, on average
So far this year, law enforcement officers have used a life-saving drug to reverse at least 172 opiate overdoses across the state — a rate of nearly two per day that shows the mounting challenge heroin and prescription drug abuse presents in Colorado. Heroin-related deaths doubled in Colorado between 2011 and 2015. The amount of…
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As prescription opioid deaths drop 6 percent in Colorado, heroin deaths rise 23 percent
Overdose deaths from prescription opioids in Colorado likely dropped last year to their lowest level in six years, but the state also saw a possibly connected increase in heroin and cocaine overdoses, according to preliminary numbers from Colorado’s Health Department. Overall, the total number of opiate deaths — meaning deaths from both prescription painkillers like fentanyl or…
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Colorado hospitals could close if Obamacare is repealed and not replaced, execs say
Hospitals across the state could be forced to cut back services or even close if the Affordable Care Act is repealed without an adequate replacement, several health care executives in Colorado warned on Wednesday. A hospital in the San Luis Valley, for instance, may not be able to maintain a level of care that means…
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Colorado teen dies after he was shot by friend two days before Christmas
A Jefferson County teenager who was shot two days before Christmas, allegedly by a friend, has died, the sheriff’s office announced Monday. The 14-year-old boy was shot Friday afternoon inside a house near West Bowles Place and South Simms Street. He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. A 15-year-old ran from the house…
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How Colorado’s election system makes large-scale result rigging nearly impossible
Let’s say you want to rig the outcome of the presidential election or another statewide race in Colorado. Step 1: Pack a lunch … and a dinner … and a snack and a breakfast and a second lunch and four more weeks of food because you’re going to be at it for at least a month…
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Cinemark drops cost claims against all but four Aurora theater shooting victims who sued
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Several dozen victims of the Aurora theater shooting will not have to pay the legal costs of the theater’s owner after reaching a settlement in a long-running lawsuit. According to court documents filed Wednesday, theater…