The Denver Post’s Tim Hoover and Jennifer Brown have done a disservice to their readers with their weakly reported April 22 story “Federal funds will help enroll more people in Medicaid.”

First, the Post reports that a new hospital fee “would be matched by an equal amount of federal funding.” Simply false. The fiscal note done by the Colorado legislature shows the fee will raise $629,365,211 compared to $508,827,172 in federal funds. Do Brown and Hoover wish to pay to make up that more than $100,000,000 gap?

Second, the Post claims “the bill says hospitals can’t explicitly pass the fees … Continue Reading