colorado medicaid
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Under fire from legislators and critics, Colorado’s top Medicaid official resigns
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Colorado’s top Medicaid official stepped down on Monday, just as a bipartisan bloc of state senators prepared to formally urge Gov. Jared Polis to remove her over what they called years of mismanagement, waste and costly errors inside the state’s largest agency. One legislator seeking the resignation of Kim Bimestefer, executive direct or of the…
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Unsustainable: How Colorado’s Medicaid spending exploded
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The state’s Medicaid program — which covers about one in four Coloradans — is poised for its largest single-year jump in at least two decades, with officials proposing a $2.3 billion increase, even as lawmakers face a $1.5 billion budget shortfall. The data shows Medicaid enrollment has grown steadily, while spending has increased far more…
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Report: GOP health plan would cost Colorado $15B or leave 400,000 without coverage
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A new report on the House Republican American Health Care Act finds the plan would leave $15 billion in Medicaid costs for Colorado to pay, end the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and likely leave more than 420,000 residents without health care coverage. The bleak findings of the progressive Center on Budget and Policy Priorities are shocking…