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        "title": "How strong is Colorado's Health Connection?",
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        "prettyDate": "September 01, 2014",
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        "summary": "Despite the public-relation challenges that have plagued the Colorado exchange, Connect for Health Colorado spokesman Ben Davis remains optimistic about the state of the exchange and what it's done for health care in Colorado.",
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        "uri": "/2014/08/22/ppacas-smoking-gun/",
        "title": "PPACA’s smoking gun",
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        "prettyDate": "August 22, 2014",
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        "summary": "In a year awash with PPACA news theres been silence about one particular component.",
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        "title": "How does medical marijuana use affect employment?",
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        "prettyDate": "August 12, 2014",
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        "summary": "Employers might be confused about what they are and are not required to accommodate under the Americans with Disabilities Act.",
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        "title": "How strong is Colorado’s health connection?",
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        "prettyDate": "August 06, 2014",
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        "summary": "Despite the public-relation challenges that have plagued the Colorado exchange, Connect for Health Colorado has done a lot for health care in Colorado.",
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        "title": "Do your homework before jumping on the self-funding bandwagon",
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        "prettyDate": "August 01, 2014",
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        "summary": "Historically, the only employer groups interested in self-funding their health insurance policies were the ones that could absorb the costs of a catastrophic health eventin other words, companies with Fortune 500-level bottom lines.",
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        "uri": "/2014/07/11/would-reference-pricing-hold-down-health-costs/",
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        "prettyDate": "July 11, 2014",
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        "summary": "Some health care experts believe reference pricing, the strategy used to help the California Public Employees Retirement System save about 30 percent of their costs, is a potential solution to the out-of-control health care spending in the U.S.",
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        "title": "The PPACA effect",
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        "prettyDate": "July 01, 2014",
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        "summary": "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act opened up the possibility of buying health insurance to millions of Americans who, for whatever reason, were uninsured beforeto the tune of 8 million enrollees in PPACA health exchange plans as of early May.",
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        "uri": "/2014/07/01/other-ways-to-make-wellness-work/",
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        "prettyDate": "July 01, 2014",
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        "summary": "Annual health insurance premium rate increases might seem like death and taxes to employers (and employees)inevitable.",
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        "uri": "/2014/05/19/the-ppaca-effect-2/",
        "title": "The PPACA effect",
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        "prettyDate": "May 19, 2014",
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        "summary": "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act opened up the possibility of buying health insurance to millions of Americans who, for whatever reason, were uninsured before.",
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        "uri": "/2014/05/13/the-downside-of-delay/",
        "title": "The downside of delay",
        "byline": "Amber Taufen",
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        "prettyDate": "May 13, 2014",
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        "summary": "When President Obama signed another ICD-10 implementation delay into law on April 1, you could almost hear the collective sigh of relief from health care professionals.",
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