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Colorado Eyes Single-Payer Health Care Amid Medicaid Cuts

5/23/2025

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Colorado is exploring a single-payer health care system, taking lessons from Vermont's 2011 failure due to funding issues. As Congress debates Medicaid cuts, the potential rise in uninsured individuals threatens to destabilize local economies and strain hospital resources, raising urgent concerns about health care access for all.

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Colorado is exploring a single-payer health care system, taking lessons from Vermont's 2011 failure due to funding issues. As Congress debates Medicaid cuts, the potential rise in uninsured individuals threatens to destabilize local economies and strain hospital resources, raising urgent concerns about health care access for all.