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Nov. 18, 2025: Medicaid may face state cuts next, mobile healthcare alternative, women’s soccer stadium in doubt

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Gov. Jared Polis, flanked by Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera and Mark Ferrandino, who leads the Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting, presents his 2026-27 budget proposal during a news conference on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, at the governor’s mansion in downtown Denver.

Balancing Colorado’s yearly budget is getting harder to do, as the state has entered a cycle of billion dollar budget shortfalls, largely because of Medicaid costs growing out of control. Then, some Coloradans losing health insurance coverage may decide to skip vaccines and screening tests, but there is a new alternative on one corner of the state. Plus, Denver’s national women’s soccer team threatens to leave Denver before it ever starts, and move to the suburbs. And, a brief update on President Trump’s effort to free Tina Peters.

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This episode of Colorado Today is hosted by Arlo Pérez Esquivel. It’s edited and produced by Mateo Schimpf, Stephanie Wolf, Sandy Battulga, Rachel Estabrook and Tyler Bender. The executive producer is Rachel Estabrook. Theme music by Pedro Lumbraño.