John Daley

About 1.2 million people, a fifth of the state’s population, depend on the program, which Young said accounts for about a third of the state’s budget.

Officials are telling people they may have been exposed in mid-March if they visited one Walmart, one deli or a specific clinic in Pueblo.

Health officials say the real concern are certain pockets where immunization rates may be well below average.

Colorado now has a second measles case this year, an unvaccinated infant who traveled internationally

The detection in Archuleta County comes after cases in Denver and Pueblo.

From hospitals to doctors to new moms to community leaders, seeing the federal program dramatically cut would create a ripple effect in rural Colorado.

At least 100,000 Coloradans in each Congressional district could lose Medicaid coverage, Polis administration says, if Congress approves the cuts.

The letter comes as a budget blueprint, which could contain steep Medicaid cuts, makes its way through Congress.

The new case is an adult from a household contact of the first Denver case, a child under the age of 1.

The case was identified in a vaccinated adult with recent international travel.