{"id":1385349,"date":"2019-01-21T10:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T17:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=963519"},"modified":"2019-01-21T10:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T17:20:39","slug":"cost-of-living-and-expense-of-hiring-workers-contribute-to-high-health-care-costs-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/cost-of-living-and-expense-of-hiring-workers-contribute-to-high-health-care-costs-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of living and expense of hiring workers contribute to high health care costs in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado hospitals have come under scrutiny in recent months for the\u00a0high bills patients\u00a0face when seeking care at their facilities, with lawmakers aiming to address the issue this session.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Colorado Hospital Association has released its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cha.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Health-Care-and-Hospital-Costs-Report-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">own report analyzing health care costs<\/a>\u00a0in the state.<\/p>\n<p>It found that the state spent almost 17 percent less per person on health care than the national average in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>It also said the state&#8217;s high cost of living and the expense of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/07\/22\/colorado-labor-markets-stretching-employers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0hiring doctors and nurses in a competitive market<\/a>\u00a0are among the factors driving up health care costs.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/01\/21\/colorado-health-care-costs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denverpost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/cost-of-living-and-expense-of-hiring-workers-contribute-to-high-health-care-costs-in-colorado\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado hospitals have come under scrutiny in recent months for the\u00a0high bills patients\u00a0face when seeking care at their facilities, with lawmakers aiming to address the issue this session. Now, the Colorado Hospital Association has released its\u00a0own report analyzing health care costs\u00a0in the state. It found that the state spent almost 17 percent less per person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-25 09:14:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}