Colorado Times Recorder

By: Madeleine Schmidt

Two recently released studies show that expanding Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income people, had a bigger impact on Colorado than any other state, and that voters in the state widely support the program. Since Colorado expanded its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2009, the uninsured rate for low-income adults has dropped by 29 percent, according to a report released last week by Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families and University of North Carolina’s NC Rural Health Project. That’s the largest decline in the percentage of uninsured adults out of any state that expanded the program.

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