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Friday, October 28, 2005
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At last count, between 750,000 to 800,000 Coloradoans don't have health insurance, and their numbers are growing rapidly. They are, moreover, running out of places to get care. Overwhelmed by demand, clinics that cater to them are forced to turn them away. Medicaid often fails to cover physicians' costs for treating them, and fewer doctors even accept them as patients. Strapped hospitals and other providers pass on their losses to commercial payors, who in turn raise their premiums, which then for more employers to stop providing insurance for still more people. And so the numbers grow again.
The human cost is enormous. The fiscal blows to the state are painful. So please join us on October 28, as Elisabeth Arenales, director of Health Care Programs for The Colorado Center on Law and Policy (CCLP), examines the crisis and outlines the alternatives for meeting it.
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As a CCLP staff member, Ms. Arenales advocates on behalf of the poor, working poor and other vulnerable populations. The Center's mission is to promote justice and economic security for the state's lower income through legislative, administrative and legal advocacy, and to provide the critical advocacy formerly provided by federally funded legal services programs.
Ms. Arenales' background includes complex civil litigation and a stint as staff attorney for the Colorado Lawyers Committee. There, she developed the Committee's Rural Education Project, which provides services to parents and community groups in eight rural Colorado communities. She also successfully lobbied for passage of major reform of Colorado's school discipline laws. |
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