Highlights and News

Jan 25, 2012

Skills for Jobs Act wins unanimous, bipartisan support

The Skills for Jobs Act is good public policy that will help match the needs of Colorado's businesses with the training and skills provided by the state's post-secondary education and workforce-development programs.

Policy analyst Frank Waterous testified in favor of the legislation (HB 12-1061), which also was supported by the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Interwest Energy Alliance, among others. CACI said HB 1061 is a "common-sense bill."

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Jan 20, 2012

Educational opportunity and upcoming legislative action

We at the Bell still believe in the American Dream. For most of us, Colorado offers many opportunities to succeed, and education is the primary means we use to help us take advantage of those opportunities

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Jan 18, 2012

Health care spending grows, but at near-record low rate

Health care spending increased by 3.9 percent in 2010, the second-lowest rate of growth since officials began tracking data in 1960, according to a new report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The report concludes that the Affordable Care Act has contributed only 0.1 percent to that spending growth.

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Jan 12, 2012

State of the state: Hickenlooper says, 'Let's talk, Colorado'

Gov. John Hickenlooper delivered his second State of the State address to the Colorado General Assembly today, but we didn't get the usual laundry list of programs and initiatives. Instead, we heard an aspirational vision for the kind of state Colorado can be and a call for greater partnership and collaboration among political parties and throughout the state.

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Jan 11, 2012

Straight talk on health care reform: Cost of premiums

Under the Affordable Care Act, the lion's share of each insurance premium dollar must be spent on health care.

That notion might seem obvious, but previously there was no national standard for what is termed the "medical loss ratio," or MLR. The ratio measures the split between health care spending and administrative and other costs. (Incidentally, MLR is an old insurance term that comes from the accounting departments, where spending on medical care was considered a loss deducted from income.)

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