Health Insurance and Costs

The offer of $500 in bonus funds is intended to help with COVID-19-related expenses.

"If I’m going to die, I’m going to die at home. I don’t want to go to the hospital. I’m going to stay here, for I don’t want to leave behind any more problems than we already have.”

"This profound mistrust is fueled by the staggering absence of clear, unified national leadership on the public health crisis, a failure unparalleled in our history," writes public health leader Georges Benjamin.

High drug prices are making for good politics. Americans keep waiting for that to translate into effective policies.

The number of suicides among young Coloradans remains unchanged during the coronavirus pandemic compared to previous years, but school and health officials expect to soon see a “tsunami of need” for mental health care.

This story was produced as a larger project by Valeria Fernandez for the 2020 National Fellowship, focusing on how indigenous, immigrant communities and people of color have been organizing before and during the pandemic in communities of care to find support and healing.

A group of Denver Post journalists led by health reporter Jessica Seaman spent much of the last year immersed in the subject of teen mental health and suicide, and today the paper is publishing the results of that project.

Even before the pandemic, ICE consistently failed to provide adequate medical care to detainees on its flights — with dire outcomes.

How ICE moves detainees under the cover of darkness.

California has the highest rate of unmet mental health treatment needs in the country.