Sick Babies and Senior Citizens Healthier
A Denver Post editorial concludes:
For the final quarter of the current budget year (April to June), more than $65 million in supplemental funds were allocated to 18 programs that help clients from sick babies to senior citizens. Money was restored to community treatment programs that serve mentally ill people removed from Fort Logan when it closed, and to childhood specialists who serve mentally ill children. Increased funds went to vocational rehabilitation programs for elimination of waiting lists. Money was earmarked for developmentally disabled people, community drug treatment and the state’s indigent care program. Some money was restored to increase reimbursement rates for doctors and hospitals, whose Medicaid rates had been cut in recent years. Increases were also carried into the full 2006-07 budget.A top promise of Referendum C backers was that health programs would be helped, and lawmakers kept that promise.
Promises made, promises kept, more healthy Coloradans.
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