Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
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Working for barrier-free access to quality, affordable and equitable health care for all Coloradans.
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Amendment 87 would tax Coloradans making $500k+ a year. Opponents including Gov Jared Polis (D) are misleadingly claiming it will raise taxes on low-income seniors and vets.
October 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Amendment 87 would tax Coloradans making $500k+ a year. Opponents including Gov Jared Polis (D) are misleadingly claiming it will raise taxes on low-income seniors and vets.
One in eight Coloradans still can't afford the health care they need, and federal cuts are about to make Medicaid coverage even shakier. Amendment 87 helps backfill that lost funding and makes health care more affordable for families. #IncomeTaxFairness #YesOn87
October 6, 2026 at 8:05 PM
One in eight Coloradans still can't afford the health care they need, and federal cuts are about to make Medicaid coverage even shakier. Amendment 87 helps backfill that lost funding and makes health care more affordable for families. #IncomeTaxFairness #YesOn87
Reposted by Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
Colorado Consumer Health Initiative endorses FNP 🎉 @cohealthaccess.bsky.social is a nonprofit, nonpartisan health care advocacy organization working so all Coloradans have equitable access to affordable, high-quality health care. Join FNP & CCHI in voting NO this November.
September 10, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Colorado Consumer Health Initiative endorses FNP 🎉 @cohealthaccess.bsky.social is a nonprofit, nonpartisan health care advocacy organization working so all Coloradans have equitable access to affordable, high-quality health care. Join FNP & CCHI in voting NO this November.
Reposted by Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
Amendment 87 would cut taxes for 97% of Coloradans and raise them on the wealthiest 3%, netting over $2 billion for schools, healthcare, and childcare
Prop 136 would freeze the current tax rate at 4.4% for everyone, including the wealthiest Coloradans
Thanks to @kylec.bsky.social for the explainer
Prop 136 would freeze the current tax rate at 4.4% for everyone, including the wealthiest Coloradans
Thanks to @kylec.bsky.social for the explainer
September 24, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Amendment 87 would cut taxes for 97% of Coloradans and raise them on the wealthiest 3%, netting over $2 billion for schools, healthcare, and childcare
Prop 136 would freeze the current tax rate at 4.4% for everyone, including the wealthiest Coloradans
Thanks to @kylec.bsky.social for the explainer
Prop 136 would freeze the current tax rate at 4.4% for everyone, including the wealthiest Coloradans
Thanks to @kylec.bsky.social for the explainer
Are Colorado's "nonprofit" hospitals actually nonprofit?
Our ED, Mannat Singh, digs into the power, profits, and politics behind our healthcare system and why accountability can't wait.
Full op-ed: https://loom.ly/9qcdwCQ
Our ED, Mannat Singh, digs into the power, profits, and politics behind our healthcare system and why accountability can't wait.
Full op-ed: https://loom.ly/9qcdwCQ
The fox is guarding the healthcare hen house | PODIUM
In the United States, seeking and affording care is a risky venture. The central purpose of the healthcare industry should be to equitably provide care people need at an affordable cost. It should provide services that heal individuals and families and keep people safe and healthy. Instead, much of our healthcare system has evolved to …
www.coloradopolitics.com
September 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Are Colorado's "nonprofit" hospitals actually nonprofit?
Our ED, Mannat Singh, digs into the power, profits, and politics behind our healthcare system and why accountability can't wait.
Full op-ed: https://loom.ly/9qcdwCQ
Our ED, Mannat Singh, digs into the power, profits, and politics behind our healthcare system and why accountability can't wait.
Full op-ed: https://loom.ly/9qcdwCQ
It's been a minute (okay, a few months) but our August newsletter is here! 🌞
This issue: Community Voices Conference, events happening THIS weekend, and a preview of our Next 25 campaign.
Let's catch up: https://loom.ly/meb3Tgc
This issue: Community Voices Conference, events happening THIS weekend, and a preview of our Next 25 campaign.
Let's catch up: https://loom.ly/meb3Tgc
CCHI's August Newsletter
Monthly Community Update
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August 25, 2026 at 6:55 PM
It's been a minute (okay, a few months) but our August newsletter is here! 🌞
This issue: Community Voices Conference, events happening THIS weekend, and a preview of our Next 25 campaign.
Let's catch up: https://loom.ly/meb3Tgc
This issue: Community Voices Conference, events happening THIS weekend, and a preview of our Next 25 campaign.
Let's catch up: https://loom.ly/meb3Tgc
Summer’s winding down, and we’re closing out our event series in South Colorado. Catch us in the Springs for a KYR happy hour and then in Pueblo for our last Price Is Wrong‑themed Town Hall. End your summer with us! 😎
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August 18, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Summer’s winding down, and we’re closing out our event series in South Colorado. Catch us in the Springs for a KYR happy hour and then in Pueblo for our last Price Is Wrong‑themed Town Hall. End your summer with us! 😎
🔗cohealth.co/events
🔗cohealth.co/events
Rural communities remain at risk, and the gap continues to widen. New Medicaid and Medicare hurdles could strip coverage from Coloradans already struggling to access care.
We can’t afford more red tape.
www.9news.com/article/news...
We can’t afford more red tape.
www.9news.com/article/news...
www.9news.com
July 30, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Rural communities remain at risk, and the gap continues to widen. New Medicaid and Medicare hurdles could strip coverage from Coloradans already struggling to access care.
We can’t afford more red tape.
www.9news.com/article/news...
We can’t afford more red tape.
www.9news.com/article/news...
If a test costs $75 in a doctor’s office, it shouldn’t cost $175 in a hospital. If an MRI costs $500 in a doctor’s office, it shouldn’t cost $2,500 in a hospital. But this is the reality too many people face. #LowerHealthCareCostsNow
Tell Congress to take action: https://ow.ly/aJA550Zp4fU
Tell Congress to take action: https://ow.ly/aJA550Zp4fU
July 21, 2026 at 3:08 PM
If a test costs $75 in a doctor’s office, it shouldn’t cost $175 in a hospital. If an MRI costs $500 in a doctor’s office, it shouldn’t cost $2,500 in a hospital. But this is the reality too many people face. #LowerHealthCareCostsNow
Tell Congress to take action: https://ow.ly/aJA550Zp4fU
Tell Congress to take action: https://ow.ly/aJA550Zp4fU
Thomas Buckley was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer at 31. Then his health insurance premium was set to jump 1,700% when ACA tax credits expired.
He’s not alone. Cuts tied to H.R. 1 could push 80,000 Coloradans off private insurance and leave more than 100,000 without Medicaid.
loom.ly/44FUKX0
He’s not alone. Cuts tied to H.R. 1 could push 80,000 Coloradans off private insurance and leave more than 100,000 without Medicaid.
loom.ly/44FUKX0
If we lose our coverage, we lose our lives | PODIUM
By Thomas Buckley My oncologist asked: “Polycythemia Vera. Do you know what that means?” Earlier, I lived in blissful ignorance, unaware I potentially carried a myeloproliferative neoplasm encoded within my DNA. “Yes,” I answered, “A rare form of blood cancer, incurable, not necessarily fatal, provided it’s treated.” At 31, I thought I had life figured …
www.coloradopolitics.com
July 2, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Thomas Buckley was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer at 31. Then his health insurance premium was set to jump 1,700% when ACA tax credits expired.
He’s not alone. Cuts tied to H.R. 1 could push 80,000 Coloradans off private insurance and leave more than 100,000 without Medicaid.
loom.ly/44FUKX0
He’s not alone. Cuts tied to H.R. 1 could push 80,000 Coloradans off private insurance and leave more than 100,000 without Medicaid.
loom.ly/44FUKX0
TABOR has limited Colorado's ability to invest in its own future for three decades. Initiative #195 offers a path forward: a graduated income tax that cuts taxes for 97% of Coloradans and asks the wealthiest to contribute their fair share. Coloradans deserve better.
🔗loom.ly/MNA8gVs
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The Taxpayer's Bill of Rights stirs growing impatience | Colorado Newsline
But with the Taxpayer's Bill of Right's flaws becoming harder to ignore, efforts to skirt or reform it are building.
coloradonewsline.com
June 24, 2026 at 3:43 PM
TABOR has limited Colorado's ability to invest in its own future for three decades. Initiative #195 offers a path forward: a graduated income tax that cuts taxes for 97% of Coloradans and asks the wealthiest to contribute their fair share. Coloradans deserve better.
🔗loom.ly/MNA8gVs
🔗loom.ly/MNA8gVs
Congress lied. Medicaid cuts may force my physical therapist to drop patients like me.
HR1, aka the Big Beautiful Bill, has led to devastating cuts to Medicaid in our state. Here is Lydia's story.
https://loom.ly/QI5-5aE
HR1, aka the Big Beautiful Bill, has led to devastating cuts to Medicaid in our state. Here is Lydia's story.
https://loom.ly/QI5-5aE
Congress lied. Medicaid cuts may force my physical therapist to drop patients like me (Opinion)
Despite claims by my U.S. representative, Gabe Evans, that my Medicaid and access to care would be unaffected by H.R. 1, I now have proof to the contrary.
www.denverpost.com
May 27, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Congress lied. Medicaid cuts may force my physical therapist to drop patients like me.
HR1, aka the Big Beautiful Bill, has led to devastating cuts to Medicaid in our state. Here is Lydia's story.
https://loom.ly/QI5-5aE
HR1, aka the Big Beautiful Bill, has led to devastating cuts to Medicaid in our state. Here is Lydia's story.
https://loom.ly/QI5-5aE
Coloradans are already in a health care crisis. These aren't warnings about what could happen, this is happening right now.
Chelsey watching her savings disappear to medical bills year after year. TJ, who got cancer and had to leave his own company to keep Medicaid.
Real Coloradans. Real stories.
Chelsey watching her savings disappear to medical bills year after year. TJ, who got cancer and had to leave his own company to keep Medicaid.
Real Coloradans. Real stories.
Patients and providers share stories of health care despair as worries mount over coverage and costs
Higher premiums and losses in coverage weigh on patients as Denver Health physicians expect to see more uninsured patients.
www.cpr.org
May 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Coloradans are already in a health care crisis. These aren't warnings about what could happen, this is happening right now.
Chelsey watching her savings disappear to medical bills year after year. TJ, who got cancer and had to leave his own company to keep Medicaid.
Real Coloradans. Real stories.
Chelsey watching her savings disappear to medical bills year after year. TJ, who got cancer and had to leave his own company to keep Medicaid.
Real Coloradans. Real stories.
AI could be deciding your next job, loan, or housing application, leaving you open to discrimination. But SB 189 would require companies to notify you when AI makes decisions about your job, housing, education, finances, or health care. #SB189 #CoPolitics #AIAccountability
May 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
AI could be deciding your next job, loan, or housing application, leaving you open to discrimination. But SB 189 would require companies to notify you when AI makes decisions about your job, housing, education, finances, or health care. #SB189 #CoPolitics #AIAccountability
💮 Our April Newsletter just dropped!
Here's what's in it: Reconciliation Package Update from Congress, Fighting Cuts To The Cover All Coloradans Program, Lineup of Events: Medical Debt Rally, KYR Presentation, Legislative Wrap-Up & more!
🔍 loom.ly/CIfvJ_0
Here's what's in it: Reconciliation Package Update from Congress, Fighting Cuts To The Cover All Coloradans Program, Lineup of Events: Medical Debt Rally, KYR Presentation, Legislative Wrap-Up & more!
🔍 loom.ly/CIfvJ_0
April 23, 2026 at 8:09 PM
💮 Our April Newsletter just dropped!
Here's what's in it: Reconciliation Package Update from Congress, Fighting Cuts To The Cover All Coloradans Program, Lineup of Events: Medical Debt Rally, KYR Presentation, Legislative Wrap-Up & more!
🔍 loom.ly/CIfvJ_0
Here's what's in it: Reconciliation Package Update from Congress, Fighting Cuts To The Cover All Coloradans Program, Lineup of Events: Medical Debt Rally, KYR Presentation, Legislative Wrap-Up & more!
🔍 loom.ly/CIfvJ_0
Treated at a public hospital in Colorado? Your legal rights may be more limited than you think.
Our deputy director, Adam Fox, spoke with Denver7 Investigates on how the state's Governmental Immunity Act leaves patients at public hospitals with fewer protections.
🔗 loom.ly/I8gOebM
Our deputy director, Adam Fox, spoke with Denver7 Investigates on how the state's Governmental Immunity Act leaves patients at public hospitals with fewer protections.
🔗 loom.ly/I8gOebM
Patient protections: How hospital immunity changes your legal rights in Colorado
By the time testing confirmed a patient's permanent inner ear damage after a procedure, she said, she had missed the short filing deadline under Colorado’s Governmental Immunity Act, known as CGIA.
www.denver7.com
April 10, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Treated at a public hospital in Colorado? Your legal rights may be more limited than you think.
Our deputy director, Adam Fox, spoke with Denver7 Investigates on how the state's Governmental Immunity Act leaves patients at public hospitals with fewer protections.
🔗 loom.ly/I8gOebM
Our deputy director, Adam Fox, spoke with Denver7 Investigates on how the state's Governmental Immunity Act leaves patients at public hospitals with fewer protections.
🔗 loom.ly/I8gOebM
Colorado created the PDAB to protect consumers from high drug costs. SB26-140 would gut that mission.
💊 Prescription drugs don't work if people can't afford them.
💥Tell your lawmakers to vote NO on SB26-140. 🔗https://loom.ly/OqDsphk
💊 Prescription drugs don't work if people can't afford them.
💥Tell your lawmakers to vote NO on SB26-140. 🔗https://loom.ly/OqDsphk
April 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Colorado created the PDAB to protect consumers from high drug costs. SB26-140 would gut that mission.
💊 Prescription drugs don't work if people can't afford them.
💥Tell your lawmakers to vote NO on SB26-140. 🔗https://loom.ly/OqDsphk
💊 Prescription drugs don't work if people can't afford them.
💥Tell your lawmakers to vote NO on SB26-140. 🔗https://loom.ly/OqDsphk
Today, Sophia Hennessy spoke at the New Jersey Prescription Drug Affordability Council public meeting:
“In a moment of unaffordability and budget cuts, our UPL on Enbrel stands to return a gross estimate of $38 million dollars to Coloradans.”
🔗Read her full testimony: loom.ly/50LmwA0
“In a moment of unaffordability and budget cuts, our UPL on Enbrel stands to return a gross estimate of $38 million dollars to Coloradans.”
🔗Read her full testimony: loom.ly/50LmwA0
March 19, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Today, Sophia Hennessy spoke at the New Jersey Prescription Drug Affordability Council public meeting:
“In a moment of unaffordability and budget cuts, our UPL on Enbrel stands to return a gross estimate of $38 million dollars to Coloradans.”
🔗Read her full testimony: loom.ly/50LmwA0
“In a moment of unaffordability and budget cuts, our UPL on Enbrel stands to return a gross estimate of $38 million dollars to Coloradans.”
🔗Read her full testimony: loom.ly/50LmwA0
💥The Protect Colorado's Future Coalition is excited to kickoff our push to move Colorado towards a more fair tax system but we can't do it without you!
Join us & help place this graduated income tax ballot measure in November's ballot!
📢 Let's GIT it done!
Join us & help place this graduated income tax ballot measure in November's ballot!
📢 Let's GIT it done!
March 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
💥The Protect Colorado's Future Coalition is excited to kickoff our push to move Colorado towards a more fair tax system but we can't do it without you!
Join us & help place this graduated income tax ballot measure in November's ballot!
📢 Let's GIT it done!
Join us & help place this graduated income tax ballot measure in November's ballot!
📢 Let's GIT it done!
Hospitals say finances are strained, but still earn about $100 per patient.
“Hospitals are, net, doing strong…” - Sophia H., Policy & Research Lead Coordinator
As Medicaid changes loom, will Colorado’s largest systems support patients?
🔗 https://loom.ly/fC_cUWs
“Hospitals are, net, doing strong…” - Sophia H., Policy & Research Lead Coordinator
As Medicaid changes loom, will Colorado’s largest systems support patients?
🔗 https://loom.ly/fC_cUWs
Colorado hospital profits rose in 2024, but they’re still far from pre-pandemic levels
Overall profit margins ranged from a high of 33% at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital to a low of -182% at CommonSpirit St. Francis-Interquest, which opened in Colorado Springs that year.
www.denverpost.com
February 24, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Hospitals say finances are strained, but still earn about $100 per patient.
“Hospitals are, net, doing strong…” - Sophia H., Policy & Research Lead Coordinator
As Medicaid changes loom, will Colorado’s largest systems support patients?
🔗 https://loom.ly/fC_cUWs
“Hospitals are, net, doing strong…” - Sophia H., Policy & Research Lead Coordinator
As Medicaid changes loom, will Colorado’s largest systems support patients?
🔗 https://loom.ly/fC_cUWs
Washington has left Colorado to fend for itself, but this state has never backed down. As Medicaid cuts loom later this year, Colorado must keep showing up to protect people’s health and financial security.
📄Read the full Op-ed: https://loom.ly/X2BBbRQ
📄Read the full Op-ed: https://loom.ly/X2BBbRQ
Colorado lawmakers must stem our health care cost crisis | PODIUM
By Ali Rakestraw I’m a family physician and lifelong Coloradan, and I’m watching a health care crisis unfold in real time. Every day, I see patients struggling to afford the care they desperately need — and it’s about to get much worse. The federal government has slashed Medicaid funding, let Affordable-Care-Act enhanced subsidies expire, and …
www.coloradopolitics.com
February 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Washington has left Colorado to fend for itself, but this state has never backed down. As Medicaid cuts loom later this year, Colorado must keep showing up to protect people’s health and financial security.
📄Read the full Op-ed: https://loom.ly/X2BBbRQ
📄Read the full Op-ed: https://loom.ly/X2BBbRQ
〰️Center for Health Progress invites you to a community info session on the Medical Debt Protection Act.
〰️Center for Health Progress te invita a una sesión informativa sobre la Ley de Protección contra la Deuda Médica.
📆Feb 17| ⏰6:30 PM MT |📍 Zoom
🔗Register/Regístrese: https://loom.ly/xIzBM6U
〰️Center for Health Progress te invita a una sesión informativa sobre la Ley de Protección contra la Deuda Médica.
📆Feb 17| ⏰6:30 PM MT |📍 Zoom
🔗Register/Regístrese: https://loom.ly/xIzBM6U
Let's pass The Medical Debt Protection Act! ¡Aprobemos la Ley de Protección contra la Deuda Médica!
United against corporate healthcare greed.
secure.everyaction.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
〰️Center for Health Progress invites you to a community info session on the Medical Debt Protection Act.
〰️Center for Health Progress te invita a una sesión informativa sobre la Ley de Protección contra la Deuda Médica.
📆Feb 17| ⏰6:30 PM MT |📍 Zoom
🔗Register/Regístrese: https://loom.ly/xIzBM6U
〰️Center for Health Progress te invita a una sesión informativa sobre la Ley de Protección contra la Deuda Médica.
📆Feb 17| ⏰6:30 PM MT |📍 Zoom
🔗Register/Regístrese: https://loom.ly/xIzBM6U
"Health care is kind of a circular economy — everything has an impact."
H.R.1 would prevent thousands of immigrant Coloradans from accessing care, placing more strain on health care providers. Eligibility changes this October could strip thousands more of their coverage.
📄 https://loom.ly/hqUvDG8
H.R.1 would prevent thousands of immigrant Coloradans from accessing care, placing more strain on health care providers. Eligibility changes this October could strip thousands more of their coverage.
📄 https://loom.ly/hqUvDG8
How Colorado's immigrant communities — and their health care providers — are bracing for impact under Trump's budget bill
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, also known as H.R. 1, will block refugees and asylees from Medicare and Medicaid, among other restrictions
coloradosun.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
"Health care is kind of a circular economy — everything has an impact."
H.R.1 would prevent thousands of immigrant Coloradans from accessing care, placing more strain on health care providers. Eligibility changes this October could strip thousands more of their coverage.
📄 https://loom.ly/hqUvDG8
H.R.1 would prevent thousands of immigrant Coloradans from accessing care, placing more strain on health care providers. Eligibility changes this October could strip thousands more of their coverage.
📄 https://loom.ly/hqUvDG8
When tax priorities shift, health care access shifts with them.
Today’s policy choices aren’t abstract, they determine who gets covered and who gets left behind. This piece makes the case for accountability and fair, sustainable funding.
🔗Read: https://loom.ly/2pmPTD0
Today’s policy choices aren’t abstract, they determine who gets covered and who gets left behind. This piece makes the case for accountability and fair, sustainable funding.
🔗Read: https://loom.ly/2pmPTD0
When Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Become Health Care Cuts for Everyone Else
Header image by Hush Naidoo on Unsplash As the president of Voices for Progress, I work with a national network of business owners, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, prominent leaders, and, most importantly,...
coloradotimesrecorder.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:20 PM
When tax priorities shift, health care access shifts with them.
Today’s policy choices aren’t abstract, they determine who gets covered and who gets left behind. This piece makes the case for accountability and fair, sustainable funding.
🔗Read: https://loom.ly/2pmPTD0
Today’s policy choices aren’t abstract, they determine who gets covered and who gets left behind. This piece makes the case for accountability and fair, sustainable funding.
🔗Read: https://loom.ly/2pmPTD0
Colorado families and child care providers are stretched to the breaking point, and our system is 80% dependent on federal funding. That leaves families vulnerable when politics disrupt support. It’s time for Colorado to invest in our own future.
🔗https://loom.ly/12QEkyg
🔗https://loom.ly/12QEkyg
Colorado needs a graduated income tax because we can’t rely on Washington anymore (Opinion)
Colorado cannot remain dependent on the federal government to support the child care needs of Colorado families.
www.denverpost.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Colorado families and child care providers are stretched to the breaking point, and our system is 80% dependent on federal funding. That leaves families vulnerable when politics disrupt support. It’s time for Colorado to invest in our own future.
🔗https://loom.ly/12QEkyg
🔗https://loom.ly/12QEkyg