Proposed Medicaid cuts in the federal budget have health care leaders in Southwest Colorado – including CommonSpirit Mercy ...

Colorado lawmakers have said they don’t want to cut Medicaid, but the program accounts for about one-third of the general fund budget, and the state faces a $1 billion shortfall in the coming ...

Colorado’s Medicaid program is called Health First ... A report from the agency put that number at a small portion of the total, around 3 percent last year. But if Congress cuts funding the ...