Colorado Democrat Brittany Pettersen sounds alarm over potential Medicaid cuts

Steven Federico, a pediatrician [professor of pediatrics at CU School of Medicine] and chief of government and community affairs for Denver Health, left, speaks about the effects of threatened cuts to Medicaid as U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen, a Lakewood Democrat, and Brooke Harris and her daughter Quinn, a pediatric cancer patient, look on at a press conference on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital in Wheat Ridge.