Colorado Gave Free Healthcare to Illegal Immigrants – Now the Governor is Admitting It’s Not Sustainable

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In the coming months, we are going to hear a lot of Democrats talking about ‘Medicare for all.’ This is one of their top issues. Bernie Sanders has been talking about it for years and the left thinks their moment has finally arrived.

Unfortunately for them, there are plenty of examples of why this doesn’t work and would actually be a disaster.

In Colorado, Governor Jared Polis was hailed by the left for offering ‘free’ healthcare to illegal immigrants back in 2022. He i now admitting that the program is unsustainable and is recommending hundreds of millions in cuts.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

Colorado Gov Moves To Gut Health Care Coverage for Illegal Immigrant Children Amid Spiraling Medicaid Costs

Colorado Democrats and immigration activists cheered after Gov. Jared Polis (D.) signed a signature 2022 health care law providing coverage to children and “pregnant persons” living in the United States illegally. Four years later, Polis, now a lame duck, is calling to gut the Cover All Coloradans program in his final budget proposal in an attempt to address the state’s spiraling Medicaid costs, and left-wing groups aren’t happy.

Polis released his budget on the eve of the midterm elections—one day after the legally mandated deadline to do so—and proposed $600 million in state Medicaid cuts. He called Medicaid’s growth “unsustainable” and told reporters it was on track to “crowd out everything else, including education.”

Buried in the proposal is a section calling to “replace Cover All Coloradans” by redirecting funds to a separate program, the Primary Care Fund, which offers financial assistance to low-income, uninsured residents for health care. Illegal immigrant children are eligible for that benefit but would lose the comprehensive insurance plan provided by Cover All Coloradans. A fact sheet notes that Polis aims “to end Cover All Coloradans coverage for children,” but “coverage for pregnant and postpartum adults would continue.”

Polis’s budget would strip some $10 million from Cover All Coloradans, with about half of that going to the Primary Care Fund.

Ed Morrissey comments at Hot Air:

All the while, economists warned that the costs of covering illegal aliens in Medicaid would bankrupt states. Progressives countered that the expansion would save money by allowing illegal aliens to seek cheaper treatment in clinics rather than clog emergency rooms with health issues that could have been resolved less expensively. That’s the same logic that Democrats argued with ObamaCare, and the progressive math there turned out to be entirely wrong as well. As Polis discovered in Colorado, the preventive-care math doesn’t work in Medicaid, either.

This is just one state – Colorado. Imagine these numbers but applied to the entire country.

Jared Polis is quietly trying to kill the health program he created for kids of illegal immigrants — after costs exploded to 7x what Colorado predicted.

In 2022 he signed Cover All Coloradans, giving coverage to children and pregnant women in the country illegally. Now, in his… pic.twitter.com/c8HTrQfrSN

— GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE (@GOP_is_Gutless) November 12, 2026

If Democrats get their way, our entire system of healthcare will collapse under its own weight.

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