Source: Colorado Public Radio
About a quarter of Colorado adults are obese, compared to nearly a third of U.S. adults. The state’s adults suffer relatively less from diabetes and cardiovascular disease. But Colorado has higher rates of death due to firearms and overdoses and of adults reporting mental illness in the past year.
About 8 percent of Colorado adults have medical debt, according to a new website from KFF, a nonprofit national health policy organization.
Voters this election season looking for more information, sources and context about health care in Colorado can find details there.
The share of Colorado births financed by Medicaid in Colorado was 36 percent in 2022.
More than half of Coloradans are covered by an employer. Medicaid, the government program for people with limited income and resources, covers 18 percent, while Medicare, the federal health insurance program for those 65 and older and some people with disabilities, covers around 13 percent.
“I do think it’s a helpful tool,” said Emily Johnson, managing director of research, evaluation and convening, with the Colorado Health Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health policy group.
One area where people can see some of the starkest differences between states is on the issue of abortion.
