‘There’s winners and losers’: Colorado is hoping to reform mental health, but a failed overhaul in 2014 shows how political connections maintain the status quo

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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks during a press conference April 7, 2022, about behavioral health legislation moving through the legislative process at the state Capitol.

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Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper at an event marking the end construction on the Interstate 25 South Gap project near Larkspur between Castle Rock and Colorado Springs on Monday, November 22, 2021.

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