Attn CO businesses: some powerful voices in CO are misrepresenting 87. They’re hoping you don’t ask how big a biz has to be before it pays a penny more. Most small biz owners pay their biz taxes through personal returns. They are among the 97% getting a tax cut. #YesOn87 #NoOn136

Amendment 87 would tax Coloradans making $500k+ a year. Opponents including Gov Jared Polis (D) are misleadingly claiming it will raise taxes on low-income seniors and vets.

One in eight Coloradans still can't afford the health care they need, and federal cuts are about to make Medicaid coverage even shakier. Amendment 87 helps backfill that lost funding and makes health care more affordable for families. #IncomeTaxFairness #YesOn87

Colorado Consumer Health Initiative endorses FNP 🎉 @cohealthaccess.bsky.social is a nonprofit, nonpartisan health care advocacy organization working so all Coloradans have equitable access to affordable, high-quality health care. Join FNP & CCHI in voting NO this November.

Amendment 87 would cut taxes for 97% of Coloradans and raise them on the wealthiest 3%, netting over $2 billion for schools, healthcare, and childcare Prop 136 would freeze the current tax rate at 4.4% for everyone, including the wealthiest Coloradans Thanks to @kylec.bsky.social for the explainer

Are Colorado's "nonprofit" hospitals actually nonprofit? Our ED, Mannat Singh, digs into the power, profits, and politics behind our healthcare system and why accountability can't wait. Full op-ed: https://loom.ly/9qcdwCQ

The fox is guarding the healthcare hen house | PODIUM

In the United States, seeking and affording care is a risky venture. The central purpose of the healthcare industry should be to equitably provide care people need at an affordable cost. It should provide services that heal individuals and families and keep people safe and healthy. Instead, much of our healthcare system has evolved to …

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It's been a minute (okay, a few months) but our August newsletter is here! 🌞 This issue: Community Voices Conference, events happening THIS weekend, and a preview of our Next 25 campaign. Let's catch up: https://loom.ly/meb3Tgc

Summer’s winding down, and we’re closing out our event series in South Colorado. Catch us in the Springs for a KYR happy hour and then in Pueblo for our last Price Is Wrong‑themed Town Hall. End your summer with us! 😎 🔗cohealth.co/events

Rural communities remain at risk, and the gap continues to widen. New Medicaid and Medicare hurdles could strip coverage from Coloradans already struggling to access care. We can’t afford more red tape. www.9news.com/article/news...

If a test costs $75 in a doctor’s office, it shouldn’t cost $175 in a hospital. If an MRI costs $500 in a doctor’s office, it shouldn’t cost $2,500 in a hospital. But this is the reality too many people face. #LowerHealthCareCostsNow Tell Congress to take action: https://ow.ly/aJA550Zp4fU

Thomas Buckley was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer at 31. Then his health insurance premium was set to jump 1,700% when ACA tax credits expired. He’s not alone. Cuts tied to H.R. 1 could push 80,000 Coloradans off private insurance and leave more than 100,000 without Medicaid. loom.ly/44FUKX0

TABOR has limited Colorado's ability to invest in its own future for three decades. Initiative #195 offers a path forward: a graduated income tax that cuts taxes for 97% of Coloradans and asks the wealthiest to contribute their fair share. Coloradans deserve better. 🔗loom.ly/MNA8gVs

The Taxpayer's Bill of Rights stirs growing impatience | Colorado Newsline

But with the Taxpayer's Bill of Right's flaws becoming harder to ignore, efforts to skirt or reform it are building.

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Congress lied. Medicaid cuts may force my physical therapist to drop patients like me. HR1, aka the Big Beautiful Bill, has led to devastating cuts to Medicaid in our state. Here is Lydia's story. https://loom.ly/QI5-5aE

Congress lied. Medicaid cuts may force my physical therapist to drop patients like me (Opinion)

Despite claims by my U.S. representative, Gabe Evans, that my Medicaid and access to care would be unaffected by H.R. 1, I now have proof to the contrary.

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Coloradans are already in a health care crisis. These aren't warnings about what could happen, this is happening right now. Chelsey watching her savings disappear to medical bills year after year. TJ, who got cancer and had to leave his own company to keep Medicaid. Real Coloradans. Real stories.

AI could be deciding your next job, loan, or housing application, leaving you open to discrimination. But SB 189 would require companies to notify you when AI makes decisions about your job, housing, education, finances, or health care. #SB189 #CoPolitics #AIAccountability

💮 Our April Newsletter just dropped! Here's what's in it: Reconciliation Package Update from Congress, Fighting Cuts To The Cover All Coloradans Program, Lineup of Events: Medical Debt Rally, KYR Presentation, Legislative Wrap-Up & more! 🔍 loom.ly/CIfvJ_0

Treated at a public hospital in Colorado? Your legal rights may be more limited than you think. Our deputy director, Adam Fox, spoke with Denver7 Investigates on how the state's Governmental Immunity Act leaves patients at public hospitals with fewer protections. 🔗 loom.ly/I8gOebM

Patient protections: How hospital immunity changes your legal rights in Colorado

By the time testing confirmed a patient's permanent inner ear damage after a procedure, she said, she had missed the short filing deadline under Colorado’s Governmental Immunity Act, known as CGIA.

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Colorado created the PDAB to protect consumers from high drug costs. SB26-140 would gut that mission. 💊 Prescription drugs don't work if people can't afford them. 💥Tell your lawmakers to vote NO on SB26-140. 🔗https://loom.ly/OqDsphk

Today, Sophia Hennessy spoke at the New Jersey Prescription Drug Affordability Council public meeting: “In a moment of unaffordability and budget cuts, our UPL on Enbrel stands to return a gross estimate of $38 million dollars to Coloradans.” 🔗Read her full testimony: loom.ly/50LmwA0

💥The Protect Colorado's Future Coalition is excited to kickoff our push to move Colorado towards a more fair tax system but we can't do it without you! Join us & help place this graduated income tax ballot measure in November's ballot! 📢 Let's GIT it done!

Hospitals say finances are strained, but still earn about $100 per patient. “Hospitals are, net, doing strong…” - Sophia H., Policy & Research Lead Coordinator As Medicaid changes loom, will Colorado’s largest systems support patients? 🔗 https://loom.ly/fC_cUWs

Colorado hospital profits rose in 2024, but they’re still far from pre-pandemic levels

Overall profit margins ranged from a high of 33% at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital to a low of -182% at CommonSpirit St. Francis-Interquest, which opened in Colorado Springs that year.

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Washington has left Colorado to fend for itself, but this state has never backed down. As Medicaid cuts loom later this year, Colorado must keep showing up to protect people’s health and financial security. 📄Read the full Op-ed: https://loom.ly/X2BBbRQ

Colorado lawmakers must stem our health care cost crisis | PODIUM

By Ali Rakestraw I’m a family physician and lifelong Coloradan, and I’m watching a health care crisis unfold in real time. Every day, I see patients struggling to afford the care they desperately need — and it’s about to get much worse. The federal government has slashed Medicaid funding, let Affordable-Care-Act enhanced subsidies expire, and …

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〰️Center for Health Progress invites you to a community info session on the Medical Debt Protection Act. 〰️Center for Health Progress te invita a una sesión informativa sobre la Ley de Protección contra la Deuda Médica. 📆Feb 17| ⏰6:30 PM MT |📍 Zoom 🔗Register/Regístrese: https://loom.ly/xIzBM6U

Let's pass The Medical Debt Protection Act! ¡Aprobemos la Ley de Protección contra la Deuda Médica!

United against corporate healthcare greed.

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"Health care is kind of a circular economy — everything has an impact." H.R.1 would prevent thousands of immigrant Coloradans from accessing care, placing more strain on health care providers. Eligibility changes this October could strip thousands more of their coverage. 📄 https://loom.ly/hqUvDG8

How Colorado's immigrant communities — and their health care providers — are bracing for impact under Trump's budget bill

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, also known as H.R. 1, will block refugees and asylees from Medicare and Medicaid, among other restrictions

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When tax priorities shift, health care access shifts with them. Today’s policy choices aren’t abstract, they determine who gets covered and who gets left behind. This piece makes the case for accountability and fair, sustainable funding. 🔗Read: https://loom.ly/2pmPTD0

When Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Become Health Care Cuts for Everyone Else

Header image by Hush Naidoo on Unsplash As the president of Voices for Progress, I work with a national network of business owners, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, prominent leaders, and, most importantly,...

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Colorado families and child care providers are stretched to the breaking point, and our system is 80% dependent on federal funding. That leaves families vulnerable when politics disrupt support. It’s time for Colorado to invest in our own future. 🔗https://loom.ly/12QEkyg

Colorado needs a graduated income tax because we can’t rely on Washington anymore (Opinion)

Colorado cannot remain dependent on the federal government to support the child care needs of Colorado families.

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You’re invited to our first-ever Fundraising Breakfast! 🥂 Come celebrate the Consumer Assistance Program, which has helped wipe out more than $12 million in unjust medical debt for Coloradan. 💚 🔗RSVP: https://loom.ly/FkMoOcI

Colorado enrollment held steady only because the state stepped in to help families afford coverage. Meanwhile, Congress let enhanced tax credits expire, premiums are spiking, and more people are canceling plans. 📰Read our full press release:https://loom.ly/JIvTsPs

Consumer advocates view health insurance enrollments with caution; Coloradans keeping coverage only due to State help while GOP drives ACA into the ground  – Colorado Consumer Health Initiative

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Jan 21, 2026 CONTACT: Priya Telang Consumer advocates view health insurance enrollments with caution; Coloradans keeping coverage only due to State help while GOP drives ACA into the ground  DENVER – Today Connect for Health Colorado, the state’s ACA marketplace, announced that approximately 2% fewer Colorado families and small businesses enrolled …

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🎆Our January newsletter is here — we talk our 2026 policy priorities ahead of the legislative session, share a federal update, highlight a new date for Health Care Day of Action, and you’ll meet our new Policy & Advocacy Manager (plus more).📰 https://loom.ly/HQXhZNg

These votes matter. 🟢 5 Colorado House members voted YES to extend ACA subsidies and protect affordability. 🔴 3 voted NO: siding with premium hikes of 100–200%+ and forcing families to choose between health care and basic needs.