Rocky Mountain Health Plans and the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition are holding a “Your Voice Matters” Medicaid Listening Tour.
Go. Speak. Bring receipts. But do not confuse a listening session with accountability.
RMHP eliminated its Family Support Council and Community Advisory Councils—the very structures where members and families could build relationships, identify patterns and demand sustained accountability.
Now it is touring communities asking people to share their experiences in controlled, one-time conversations. They may want to hear your story. The real test is whether they are willing to hear your criticism, document it publicly and change their decisions because of it.
Do not become a polite participant in the dysfunction. Do not be pressured into agreement. Do not allow your lived experience to become a checkmark on someone else’s community-engagement report.
Ask:
- Will comments be documented and published?
- Who is responsible for responding?
- What decisions can this feedback actually change?
- What commitments and deadlines will follow?
- Why were ongoing member-led accountability councils eliminated?
- Will CCDC facilitate the hard conversations—or help sanitize them?
“Your voice matters” only when those with power must answer for what they heard.
Attend—but attend as an informed Medicaid member, caregiver, provider or advocate. Bring facts. Ask difficult questions. Demand written follow-through.
They do not need more agreeable “yes” people. They need to hear from the people living with the consequences of this system every single day.