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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has declared the entire Navajo Nation a food desert because there are so few grocery stores and it's so difficult for people to find and afford healthy, fresh food. In contrast, convenience stores full of chips, candy, soda and junk food are common in Navajo country.

Navajos fight diabetes epidemic with junk food tax

By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon

A basketball player as a girl and a jogger all her life, Irma Livingston was stumped when her doctor told her nearly 10 years ago that she had diabetes and would have to take drugs to fight it for the rest of her life.

“I didn’t know what diabetes was,” said Livingston, now 61.

August 5, 2015 in Featured News, Health and Wellness, Legislation, News, Public Health Issues, Top News, Trends In Health Care.
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Phone-addicted hipsters promote digital MDs

By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon

Enamored of wearing scarves and knit hats on the hottest days, riding bikes without brakes, sipping libations only at craft breweries and using apps to dodge real people, hipsters just might save health care.

July 29, 2015 in Featured News, Health and Wellness, Health Care Industry, News, Public Health Issues, Top News, Trends In Health Care, Videos.
Retirees and dependents at PERA, who are between ages 50 and 64, will now have the option to get a fixed-price knee or hip surgery without a co-pay if they go to a designated provider.

Fixed-price surgeries come to Colorado retirees

By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon

The costs for basic hip and knee surgeries were staggering, but even more confounding were the wild variations in charges for these common procedures.

July 23, 2015 in Featured News, Health and Wellness, Health Care Industry, News, Public Health Issues, Top News, Trends In Health Care.
Jeff Bontrager, left, of the Colorado Health Institute, Richard Cauchi of the National Conference of State Legislatures and Kevin Patterson, Interim CEO of Connect for Health Colorado testified before the legislature's exchange oversight committee Wednesday.

Failed state exchanges offer model for Colorado

By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon

Colorado lawmakers plan to propose fixes for the state health exchange starting in September and one possibility is to switch to the federal IT system, but keep some local control like Oregon, Nevada, Hawaii and New Mexico have done.

July 16, 2015 in Featured News, Health and Wellness, Health Care Industry, Legislation, News, Public Health Issues, Top News, Trends In Health Care.
Health insurance broker Jay Norris has joined the board for Connect for Health Colorado.

New board members join veterans on exchange board

By Katie Kerwin McCrimmon

A heath insurance broker and an insurance industry expert have joined Colorado’s health exchange board.

July 13, 2015 in Featured News, Health and Wellness, Health Care Industry, Legislation, News, Public Health Issues, Top News, Trends In Health Care.

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