Colorado Senate Taking Steps Toward Health Assistant for Needy Residents

DENVER (AP) — State legislators are taking the first steps toward offering health assistance to more needy Coloradans.

A Senate committee will hear a bill today that would allow the state to proceed with Gov. John Hickenlooper's plan to expand Colorado's Medicaid program.

The bill would make single adults and parents earning less than the federal poverty level eligible for public health assistance.