Brandon Richard is a reporter for Denver7 in Denver, Colorado.
DENVER — This fall, voters may be asked to increase the city’s sales taxes to help a struggling hospital stay afloat.
A proposal to increase the city’s sales tax by .34% passed a city council committee without any opposition on Wednesday. It will now be considered by the full city council.Lynne said since 2019, the amount of care the hospital has provided but received no payment for has increased dramatically. Lynne said about 200,000 of the patients Denver Health cares for every year visit the hospital’s clinics.They also have four mobile units that travel to different parts of the city providing primary care and other services such as mammograms.Mariana Del Hierro, the executive director of Re:Vision, a nonprofit that focuses on cultivating food systems, said since 2022 the mobile units have stopped by once a week and provided care to community members who would otherwise go without it.
Since 2018, voters in Denver have approved sales tax increases to pay for everything from homelessness to preschool to climate protection.
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