In Congress, Colorado representatives push to limit health care losses

Major changes are coming to health insurance in Colorado over the next two years, but members of the state’s delegation in Congress are pitching bills that would dampen the impacts of those disruptions to health care.

H.R. 1, known as the “Big Beautiful Bill,” will reduce the number of people covered by Medicaid by adding work requirements and making enrollees prove their eligibility more frequently. It will also limit states’ ability to expand the services their Medicaid programs pay for, starting in 2027.

The number of uninsured people in Colorado and across the nation will likely start to rise before then. Higher subsidies to buy insurance on the individual marketplace, put in place during the pandemic, will expire Dec. 31.

In a letter to Colorado’s delegation this week, Gov. Jared P