Nov. 18, 2025: Medicaid may face state cuts next, mobile healthcare alternative, women’s soccer stadium in doubt

Balancing Colorado’s yearly budget is getting harder to do, as the state has entered a cycle of billion dollar budget shortfalls, largely because of Medicaid costs growing out of control. Then, some Coloradans losing health insurance coverage may decide to skip vaccines and screening tests, but there is a new alternative on one corner of the state. Plus, Denver’s national women’s soccer team threatens to leave Denver before it ever starts, and move to the suburbs. And, a brief update on President Trump’s effort to free Tina Peters. Email us at coloradotoday@cpr.org . Colorado Today is supported by CPR’s members . Read more on the stories in today’s show: The Colorado Capital News Alliance’s Jesse Paul reports on the state budget problems . Juanita Hurtado-Huerfano reports on mobile health units in Weld County . Denverite’s Paolo Zialcita reports on the National Women’s Soccer League team threatening to build a stadium in the suburbs . CPR’s Bente Birkeland reports on the latest effort to help Tina Peters . This episode of Colorado Today is hosted by Arlo Pérez Esquivel. It’s edited and produced by Mateo Schimpf, Stephanie Wolf, Sandy Battulga, Rachel Estabrook and Tyler Bender. The executive producer is Rachel Estabrook. Theme music by Pedro Lumbraño.