expand access to high-quality health and behavioral health care ... integrating access to mental health care at the doctor’s office, ensuring Coloradans have insurance coverage for mental health care, and expanding telehealth and workforce opportunities.
Bennet promises to expand access to high-quality health and behavioral health care across Colorado, integrating mental health into primary care, ensuring insurance coverage for mental health, and expanding telehealth and workforce opportunities.
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Evidence
Bennet and colleagues introduced the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Reauthorization Act to extend the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration program for another five years, with the release explicitly tying the effort to maintaining access to high-quality care in rural communities.
Bennet said six of his health care bills were signed into law, including the REAL Health Providers Act, which the release says helps protect seniors from unexpected health care costs by improving provider-directory accuracy in Medicare Advantage plans.
Assessments
Bennet materially advanced health-care access during his current federal Senate term, including enactment of several health-care bills and introduction of rural hospital access legislation. However, the evidence does not show full delivery of the broader promise to expand high-quality health and behavioral health care across Colorado, integrate mental health into primary care, ensure mental-health insurance coverage, and expand telehealth and workforce opportunities. The record supports meaningful partial fulfillment rather than complete delivery.