What a healthcare-for-all system could look like

What a healthcare-for-all system could look like

In a five-part series provided by nonprofit, donor-funded Colorado Public News, investigative journalists examine how Grand Junction, Colo., has emerged as a model of low-cost, high-quality, near-universal healthcare. Read more here.

Grand Junction Healthcare

Grand Junction healthcare is a model of low cost and high quality

Part 1: Grand Junction healthcare is a model of low cost and high quality

The first of five parts: Read how the city and region is emerging as a national model for public healthcare.

McAllen and Grand Junction: Spending varies widely at end of life

Data: End-of-life spending varies widely

Medicare spending in the last two years of life shows the dramatic differences between McAllen, Tex., and Grand Junction, Colo. McAllen...

Find your city's rank in healthcare spending

Data: Find your city's rank in healthcare spending

Researchers use average annual spending on Medicare patients to compare the cost of healthcare.

Giving honor to life and dignity at Grand Junction hospice

Part 2: Giving honor to life and dignity at Grand Junction hospital

After Ryan Fiegel fell into a coma in the wake of a brain tumor in February, his parents made the tough decision to take him off his...

Uninsured find their own clinic next door to emergency room

Uninsured find their own clinic next door

Grand Junction is heaven for patients with no health insurance, compared to most places in America, at least according to Michael Ervin.

Collaboration is key to low-cost, high-quality healthcare

Part 3 (Video): Collaboration is key to Grand Junction's healthcare

A video by videojournalist Sonya Doctorian explains how Grand Junction has built its health care delivery system. Cooperation,...

Opting for exercise over surgery in Grand Junction

Part 4: Opting for exercise over surgery in Grand Junction

Phil Smith had to return home to Grand Junction to find a health care system that could ease his back pain with a simple 30-second...

Replicating the healthcare model of Grand Junction

Part 5:Replicating the healthcare model of Grand Junction

Can other communities copy the Grand Junction model of low-cost, high-quality, near-universal healthcare?

Just how much less expensive?

Data: Just how much less expensive?

An analysis of the cost-effectiveness of Grand Junction's health system -- for the state, the federal government and the patient.

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