Residents urge Garfield County to advocate for Medicaid, commissioners decline

Residents urge Garfield County to advocate for Medicaid, commissioners decline

The Garfield Board of County Commissioners on Monday declined to pass a resolution supporting the retention of Medicaid coverage despite pressure from more than a dozen members of a local pro-democracy group. Judy Haynes, an ambassador with Mountain Action Indivisible, a local branch of the national movement Indivisible, asked commissioners to pass a resolution supporting the retention of Medicaid coverage in Colorado. “I’m asking this because y…