The Gazette

Unsustainable: How Colorado’s Medicaid spending exploded

Tegan Motschall, who has cerebral palsy, smiles during an equine therapy session as Kathy Sandefur, left, and occupational therapist Liz Ampe assist. The therapy can be used as a tool in occupational ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

State Medicaid cuts pose concerns for locals with disabilities

Under Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), state taxes cannot be increased without explicit voter approval, and the ...

9 Colorado hospitals at risk of closing due to Medicaid cuts

The $900 billion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade could threaten the viability of more than 400 hospitals nationally and ...
The Aspen Times

‘No magic bullet:’ Colorado officials seek ways to curb rising Medicaid costs

Colorado’s spending on Medicaid — the federal-state program that covers more than 1 in 5 low-income Coloradans — is reaching a point of unsustainability, state officials say. Cuts to the program may ...
Summit County

Head of Colorado Medicaid office pledges to avoid ‘draconian’ cuts as agency charts a new path under GOP budget law

Colorado health officials are beginning to map out a plan for how to deal with federal changes to Medicaid under congressional Republicans’ and President Donald Trump’s recently enacted “big, ...
Houston Public Media

In this rural Colorado valley, cuts to Medicaid would have vast ripple effects

In southern Colorado's San Luis Valley, clouds billow above the towering mountains of the Sangre de Cristo range. A chorus of blackbirds whistle, as they flit among the reeds of a wildlife refuge. Big ...
The Daily Yonder

Where Medicaid Spending Falls Short of Need

At the county level, low Medicaid spending can reflect a variety of things. Sometimes, it just means that not a lot of people are qualified to enroll in ...