For more than two decades, Colorado has invested in the health care safety net because we know that access to health care is a primary path to financial security and quality of life for Coloradans and a healthy, vibrant state for all of us. But over the last year, as we have emerged from the COVID crisis, Colorado has failed our neighbors on Medicaid and jeopardized the safety net health care providers who serve them.<\/p>\n
This is a clear failure of leadership at the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, the state\u2019s Medicaid agency. Instead of stepping up to help solve this issue, leaders of the agency have been squabbling over numbers and largely deflecting responsibility. The agency must move immediately to tackle this crisis.<\/p>\n
We are seeing the impacts every day in the communities we serve. We are outraged and heartbroken about it \u2013 and ready to make saving our safety net Colorado\u2019s highest priority in the year ahead.<\/p>\n
As has been widely reported, the state has done a terrible job keeping Coloradans enrolled in Medicaid in the wake of the COVID crisis. To recap:<\/p>\n