For more than two decades, Colorado has invested in the health care safety net because we know that access to health care is a primary path to financial security and quality of life for Coloradans and a healthy, vibrant state for all of us. But over the last year, as we have emerged from the COVID crisis, Colorado has failed our neighbors on Medicaid and jeopardized the safety net health care providers who serve them. This is a clear failure of leadership at the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, the state’s Medicaid agency.