{"id":110270,"date":"2025-08-26T02:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/110270\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T02:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:37:11","slug":"colorado-funds-medicaid-costs-for-planned-parenthood-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/110270\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado funds Medicaid costs for Planned Parenthood | Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">(The Center Square)\u00a0\u2013 The Colorado legislature has passed a bill that funds Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood and others who provide reproductive health care services, including abortions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Colorado House voted 43-19 Sunday in favor of <a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025B\/bills\/2025b_002_01.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 25B-2<\/a>, following the Senate\u2019s approval Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The bill now goes to Democratic Gov. Jared Polis for his signature.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Democratic majorities in the two houses support the bill. Republicans oppose it because of its approximately $4.4 million cost for the current fiscal year, a number cited by the nonpartisan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025B\/bills\/fn\/2025b_sb25b-002_00.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legislative Council Staff<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">SB 25B-2 directs the state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to use money from the state&#8217;s General Fund to provide Medicaid reimbursements to entities that are denied money from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The bill is a response to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cut federal funding of Medicaid reimbursements for reproductive health care providers such as Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Th Colorado legislation was essential to protecting Coloradans\u2019 right to care, said Jack Teter, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains\u2019 vice president of government affairs, in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(The Center Square)\u00a0\u2013 The Colorado legislature has passed a bill that funds Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[3832,97,252,253],"class_list":["post-110270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-colorado","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}