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Joint Budget Committee

Tuesday, January 27, 2026·4h 56m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Joint Budget Committee ground through the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing's sprawling supplemental package, clearing most forecast adjustments but splitting sharply over cuts to senior dental care, provider rates and the Cover All Coloradans program, rejecting a specialty-drug cut aimed at Children's Hospital, and clashing over whether HCPF broke state law by halting nursing-home wage payments on the governor's order.

Key Actions

·Medical service premiums forecast adjustmentPassed

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Notable Quotes

this is a program where the original fiscal note for the bill just missed it by like the distance between Earth and the moon.

Mr. Kurtz, JBC Staff · witnessKurtz on the scale of the forecasting error for the Cover All Coloradans program, which drew the day's only recorded dissent on a values-charged coverage question.

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The Joint Budget Committee will come to order. We are working through hipcuff supplementals today, and, Mr. Kurtz, you are starting us off. Thank you, Madam Chair. I tried to follow a similar organization to the way we had organized the briefing packets. So on page two, you see the request summarized into some large categories, components that are related to the forecast, components that are eligibility and benefit changes, provider rate changes, et cetera. And then on page three begins the first section. Each section has a description of the requests in it. My intent was to organize the request within each of these sections by numeric order. I thought that would probably be the easiest way for the committee to reference it. Unfortunately, the first one is not a great example, because on page three, I made a correction late in the process and had to repull the table. And so the table's not in the order as the descriptions below it. So I apologize for that. But the rest of the document should be organized in that way. So if you can think about, well, is this change a eligibility and benefit change or a provider rate
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