Lola Milo is certain it shouldn’t be this difficult to make sure her family has access to the health care they need. 

That’s because some months or several months in a row, she’s able to keep her family connected to Colorado’s Medicaid program. And then the letters come.

There’s one outcome of the challenges with Medicaid that stands out to Lisa Westhoff, a Regional Oral Health Specialist with Community Health Services in Aspen. One of her older patients recently lost Medicaid. He can’t afford co-pays available under Medicare. And he can’t understand why any of it is happening.

Kristin Boronski knows what the recent Medicaid retraction and changes to Medicaid reimbursements has meant for people who live in her small town of Basalt and all up and down the valley.

My name is Julianna Mascarenas, and I am here today as a single mother of six children, four of whom still live at home. I want to share how losing Medicaid has profoundly impacted our lives.