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Gov. Jared Polis joined higher education leaders and lawmakers Feb. 12, 2024, at the Auraria campus in downtown Denver to announce major investments in health care programs at four higher education institutions across the state. (Erica Breunlin, The Colorado Sun) Gov. Jared Polis and a bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers are proposing to dramatically expand health care education programs at higher education institutions across the state to combat persistent workforce shortages in health care fields, including by creating a new medical college at the University of Northern Colorado that would graduate about 150 medical professionals a year. Polis joined lawmakers and leaders from higher education schools Monday afternoon at Denver’s Auraria campus to announce a proposal to spend $247 million to expand opportunities for students wanting to pursue careers in health care fields with legislation that was introduced later Monday afternoon. Along with a new medical college ...

UnitedHealth beat second-quarter expectations as an acquisition and more Medicare Advantage customers fueled revenue growth that balanced a jump in care use United Health beat second-quarter expectations as an acquisition and more Medicare Advantage customers helped balance a jump in care use. The health care giant also raised the low end of its 2023 earnings forecast range on Friday after its profit jumped 8% to $5.47 billion in the quarter. United Health runs a Health insurance Business that covers more than 50 million people, mostly in the United States. It also has an Optum Business that provides care and runs one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers. Optum revenue jumped 25% to more than $56 billion in the quarter, helped partly by UnitedHealth’s roughly $8 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare. The company also said it squeezed more revenue out of customers served through its Optum Health business, which runs clinics, outpatient surgery centers and provides h...