Colorado Springs residents protested proposed cuts to Medicaid Friday afternoon. The protest took place outside U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank’s (R-CO) district office in the Catalyst Campus in downtown Colorado Springs, a building owned by Crank supporter and co-owner of the Colorado Springs Independent, Kevin O’Neil.
“We wanted to meet with our representative to voice our concerns about his vote on the Reconciliation Act,” said Deana, an organizer of the event who declined to provide her last name. “Obviously the big one is cutting Medicaid completely from the budget and so that’s going to affect 93,559 people on Medicaid [in Colorado Springs].”
About 1.1 million people in Colorado are on Medicaid…