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Editor's Note: Colorado has a deep history of disability activists encouraging – and sometimes forcing – change in state and federal policy to better serve the long-term…

Now that Adams county has made a good dent in the number of people without health insurance or health care, Maria Zubia is fired up to…

The hardy souls populating Leadville — altitude: 10,152 feet; average low in January: 3.1 degrees — have always learned…

Every morning when Mary Johnson climbs out of bed, she turns on her Samsung Galaxy tablet and touches a large green app with a white checkmark in the middle. The app sends a…

Dr. David Wiener spends his days making his patients’ bodies move better. But in his spare time, he couldn’t help noticing Coloradans…

The numbers have indeed changed in five turbulent years: The totals of uninsured dropping by the millions. Leaping insurance premiums, for now, calming to relatively tame…

The Affordable Care Act has survived more than five years of nonstop challenges nearly intact. Yet even those inclined to endorse its sweeping benefits point out the act’s…

For decades, residents of the vast San Luis Valley have found their way to basic health care services. No one was turned away. But many left emergency rooms and doctors’…

First, the good news. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act and regulatory changes made in recent years by the Internal Revenue Service, a…

For all the complex debate about health reform policies, the massive changes to health coverage provided by the Affordable Care Act still pay off in their most tangible form…

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