In the long and often contentious debate leading up to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the spotlight fell on Grand Junction, Colo. — a bustling town of 58,000 people nestled on the Centennial State's Western Slope.
While the city is a gateway to the Rockies and a hub of mountain living, it turns out that Grand Junction and Mesa County also feature one of the most affordable health care systems and some of the highest quality care in the United States.
Not surprisingly, politicians, politicos and media types descended on the Grand Junction area as the PPACA debate raged. President Barack Obama delivered a speech in Grand Junction in 2009, when trying to gain support for his not-so-popular health overhaul law. Shortly after, the city found its way into the pages of The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker and the New England Journal of Medicine as well as the nightly news and PBS.
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