Over the past two decades, nearly 200 rural hospitals in the U.S. have closed, but none in Colorado, the analysis reports. That could change.

Mike Murphy of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) visited Colorado late last month with a simple message for the state lawmakers and business leaders he met with: “Bad news flows downhill.

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt and Colorado Governor Jared Polis issued a joint statement about the recently proposed Medicaid funding cuts.

A spokesman for the state’s Medicaid program, Marc Williams, said in Colorado, children and pregnant women are the only undocumented people who receive Medicaid. The idea is to get them preventive care, so they don’t need costlier emergency coverage down the road.

Senator John Hickenlooper led a virtual discussion on the impacts of the Trump administration's freeze on federal funding in Colorado. The majority of speakers focused on how potential Medicaid cuts would impact Colorado.

The audit estimated that Colorado paid insurers at least $7.3 million, including both state money and about $3.8 million in federal funds, which the state might have to return. The payments were made on behalf of nearly 9,000 deceased Coloradans, according to the report.

The U.S. House passed a Trump-backed budget resolution Tuesday that called for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and could require deep reductions in Medicaid spending.

Congress is poised to cut Medicaid. The reasons abound, but most legislators who support the cuts cite reducing federal spending, unwinding the Affordable Care Act, and even some questionable claims

A POLITICO review of enrollment in Medicaid by congressional district ... of Hispanic residents of any congressional district in Colorado, at more than 38 percent. The district stretches along ...

Arizona's program is known as AHCCCS. Some other states have their own names for their Medicaid programs. For example, California's program is called Medi-Cal, Colorado's is called Health First Colorado, and in the state of Washington, it's called Apple ...