Rural healthcare

The local Sexual Abuse Nurse Examiner program - or SANE - was resurrected in 2016 by Sherry Caloia, the 9th Judicial District attorney at the time. River Bridge, a nonprofit child advocacy center in Glenwood Springs, took it on in 2018. But, River Bridge director Blythe Chapman says, even though it was the right thing to do seven years ago, the program no longer fits the agency’s mission. The SANE program for adults closed on January 1. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh spoke with Chapman to find out why.

House Bill 1, or the Big Beautiful Bill, was signed into law in July and contained strict requirements for Medicaid eligibility. The bill requires all Americans on the federal health plan to prove they are working a minimum of 80 hours a month.

The Senate Democrats' bill proposed a three-year tax credit extension that would protect Americans from paying increased premiums or losing coverage altogether. The current subsidies will expire January 1st.

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