Filling the holes in Colorado's safety net

This is an excerpt from the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved's blog. Click here to read the full article.

Having health insurance means fewer emergency room visits, less unbearable medical debt, more chronic disease management, and more preventive and primary care services. Many Coloradans who work hard every day to keep our state running—the gas station clerks, the seamstresses, the maintenance workers, the state employees who are not allowed (by state law) to participate in CHP+ for their kids even though their income is low enough—are left to try and find affordable coverage on their own or to utilize the state’s safety net. Our safety net is there to catch those for whom the system isn’t working—it has hundreds of providers who care deeply about our state’s most needy and thousands of programs, clinics, and community organizations doing great work to improve coverage and access; but our safety net is still a net, after all, and nets have holes.

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