Five years ago this month, a bipartisan Commission of health care leaders in Colorado released a set of recommendations to increase health care coverage in Colorado and reduce health care costs.
Systems Change
Our health care system needs work. Read more about how we're changing the systems that deliver health to Coloradans.
Celebrating Our Solstice
Alongside Christmas and the New Year holidays, my family has long celebrated the Winter Solstice. The Solstice marks the period of time in the winter when the sun makes its long turn on the horizon back toward the middle of the sky and brings increasing daylight with it.
Summiting Mt. Medicaid
Last summer, I became a real Coloradan—I summited my first fourteener at Quandary Peak. Growing up in a city below sea level, climbing a mountain that is 14,265 feet high is a pretty big achievement for me!
From Head to Toe
CCMU and many other advocates around the state have been pushing for better integration between mental health and physical health services, combining access points for both mental and physical issues.
“Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood”
To make progress on our shared challenges, like improving our health care system, our political system, or our civic discourse, we must pursue an appreciation and understanding of others’ experiences. It is hard work. It requires discipline, commitment, a closed mouth, and an open mind and heart.