Potential Medicaid cuts could gut services for Coloradans served by small community health centers, providers and patients say

As congressional Republicans look to slash government spending by more than $1 trillion, Colorado health care and political leaders are ringing the alarm over what that could mean for Medicaid in

Colorado health care providers said Wednesday that federal cuts to Medicaid being weighed by Republicans in Congress would drastically impair their ability to provide services to patients and keep their doors open.

In recent years, Medicaid coverage has expanded in many states under the Affordable Care Act, often ones led by Republicans, to cover more low-income adults. The KFF poll found two-thirds of people living in non-expansion states want their state to expand their Medicaid programs.