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Colorado bill to force Medicaid recipients to seek jobs fails in committee
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DENVER – A bill that sought to make Colorado the fourth state to require able-bodied Medicaid recipients to hold or look for jobs failed Thursday. Sen. Beth Martinez Humenik, R-Thornton, joined with Democrats to sink Senate Bill 214 on a 3-2 vote by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. She cited the high cost to…
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A (very) different take on Sue Birch’s departure from guv’s cabinet…
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… courtesy of reliably right-of-center Colorado Peak Politics, which isn’t about to cut Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper any slack. As noted here earlier this week, Hick’s office had announced Sue Birch, executive director of the state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, will leave to take over the Washington State Health Care Authority. The announcement included accolades…
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Sue Birch — change agent, one of guv’s earliest picks — moves on
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The Hickenlooper cabinet member credited by the governor with having “ushered Colorado through incredible changes to our health care system” stepped down this week to take a similar job in Washington’s state government. The office of Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Monday that Sue Birch, executive director of the state Department of Health Care Policy and…
