Families who use Medicaid in Colorado's 4th District, 108,600 people and 14% of everyone living there, took the hit from two Lauren Boebert votes: her yea on May 22, 2025, one of 215 against 214 nays, and her yea on July 3, 2025 for the final law, which by KFF's math strips $12.4 billion of federal Medicaid funding from Colorado across a decade.
Months before either, Boebert supplied deciding votes in February and April 2025 for a budget blueprint ordering the Medicaid committee to come up with $880 billion or more. The final law she voted for in July caps provider taxes, including Colorado's hospital provider tax, which KFF flags as likely to fall. The upshot, in KFF's projection, is 150,000 additional Coloradans uninsured by 2034 from the law alone.
Lauren Boebert's Votes That Cut Medicaid for Coloradans
- Coloradans on Medicaid Absorb a $12.4 Billion Cut After Boebert Supplied One of the 215 House Votes and Voted for the Final Law. When the clerk closed the May 22, 2025 roll call, H.R. 1 had 215 yeas to 214 nays, with one member voting present, and Lauren Boebert's yea was among the 215. A nay from her would have sunk the bill on the floor. On July 3, 2025, she was again a yea as the Senate-rewritten bill passed 218 to 214. Across all states, the Congressional Budget Office pegs the law's reduction in federal Medicaid outlays at $911 billion over ten years, with 10 million more Americans lacking coverage in 2034. KFF's allocation assigns Colorado $12.4 billion of that reduction, a 14% bite out of the federal Medicaid dollars Colorado otherwise expected.
- Colorado Hospitals Face Shrinking Provider-Tax Revenue Under the Law Built on the Budget Plan Boebert's Votes Decided in 2025. H.Con.Res. 14 cleared the House 217 to 215 on February 25, 2025 and, in its Senate-amended form, 216 to 214 on April 10, 2025. Boebert voted yea both times, and had she flipped on either roll call the result would have been a deadlock, which a resolution cannot survive. Its instruction to Energy and Commerce, the committee with jurisdiction over Medicaid, was to "reduce the deficit by not less than $880,000,000,000". She also voted aye on the May 2025 rule setting the terms for floor debate on H.R. 1. Signed into law after Boebert's July 3, 2025 yea, the final version caps provider taxes, the charges states place on hospitals and other providers to cover part of what Medicaid costs them; on its own, that cap means $191 billion less in federal Medicaid spending over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Colorado's hospital tax appears on KFF's list of state provider taxes the law will pull down, so hospitals caring for Medicaid patients lose part of the money that sustains them.
Who in Colorado and Its 4th District Loses Under the Medicaid Cuts Lauren Boebert Voted For
- Children make up 43,500 of the 108,600 Medicaid enrollees in Boebert's district. Of the 108,600 people Medicaid covered in Colorado's 4th District in 2025, 43,500 were children, 8,900 were seniors, 9,100 had disabilities and 31,700 were adults who qualified under Colorado's Medicaid expansion, KFF's district data show. Their care runs partly on the federal money the law reduces.
- By 2034 the law leaves 150,000 more Coloradans with no health coverage. KFF projects the law by itself pushes Colorado's uninsured count up by 150,000 in 2034, two percentage points. Without coverage, a broken arm or a new prescription is billed at full price to the family.
- Rural Colorado's share of the Medicaid cut comes to $1.66 billion over a decade. KFF estimates the law strips $1.66 billion in federal Medicaid dollars from rural Colorado across ten years. For a small-town hospital or clinic whose patients lean on Medicaid, that loss means fewer dollars for staff and services.
Frequently Asked Questions About Lauren Boebert on Health Care
What is Lauren Boebert's record on health care under Trump?
Lauren Boebert's yea was indispensable when the One Big Beautiful Bill Act squeaked through the House by a single vote in May 2025, her yea went to the final law in July as well, and the Congressional Budget Office scores its Medicaid reduction at $911 billion over a decade, with $12.4 billion of it coming from Colorado by KFF's allocation. Her votes also decided the two 2025 budget resolutions that set the Medicaid committee's savings target.
Who on the eastern plains has to meet Medicaid work requirements because of Lauren Boebert's vote?
In Colorado's 4th District, KFF counted 31,700 adults on Medicaid through the expansion in 2025, the population that the law Lauren Boebert voted for subjects to a work requirement. To keep coverage without an exemption, each must show 80 hours monthly of a job, volunteering or job training, or be enrolled in school at least half-time; Colorado must begin enforcing it "no later than January 1, 2027." Their eligibility reviews also tighten to "once every 6 months."
Can Coloradans who get sick before signing up for Medicaid still get their bills covered after Lauren Boebert's vote?
Less than before, because the law Lauren Boebert voted for shortens the look-back window for Colorado Medicaid: starting January 1, 2027, an expansion adult's coverage will reach back only one month before the application, and other enrollees' two months, where states have covered qualified bills from up to 90 days earlier, KFF explains. A Coloradan hospitalized before enrolling can be left with the rest of the bill.
Last updated: 2026-10-27