Jared Polis

“Run Out of Other People’s Money”: Medicare-for-All Promoters Handed Red Flag as Health Program Goes Down in Flames

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(WND)—All those promoting “socialist” “Medicare-for-all” agendas in this year’s elections, and there were many, have been handed a huge red flag as one of their own programs, by a leftist governor in a state run by all Democrats, is going down in flames because it has “run out of other people’s money.”

Reports confirm Colorado’s governor, the homosexual leftist Jared Polis, “is quietly” trying to kill his own program, the Cover All Coloradans, from 2022, which hands tax money out to children and pregnant women in the country illegally for health care.

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He now has proposed ending the program for children because it’s “unsustainable.”

Costs, it seems, exploded to seven times what his experts had estimated.

“Taxpayers got the bill. Even Polis has run out of other people’s money,” said one report.

The Free Beacon explained Colorado Democrats and immigration activists were cheering when he signed the law in 2022.

Those leftists now are unhappy with his plans to gut its funding.

“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.’”

The report noted that he “buried” in his plan a section calling to “replace Cover All Coloradans” by cutting its funding and moving money to a different operation, the Primary Care Fund, which apparently would offer financial assistance to low-income, uninsured residents for health care.

The existing comprehensive plan for children would vanish.

Polis, who over the years has been popular among leftists and progressives because of his homosexual lifestyle choices in the governor’s office and his administration’s persecution of Christians who decline to adopt and promote the LGBT ideologies, suddenly was panned by liberals for the proposed cuts, the report said.

The report said the Colorado Center on Law and Policy accused him of proposing “draconian budget cuts,” while Colorado Consumer Health Initiative deputy director Adam Fox said Polis “is now proposing more cuts to lifesaving programs rather than supporting a viable solution.”

The Free Beacon pointed out: “The brewing fight mirrors the one emerging in Washington, D.C. Incoming socialists in the House of Representatives, including Colorado Democrat Melat Kiros, have refused to back House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) for speaker of the House, while Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) is losing support to left-wing Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.) in his bid for Senate majority leader.”

The state already has pushed voters to abrogate the state’s constitutional provision limiting tax increases so lawmakers can keep, and spend, more taxpayer cash.

But Democrats, with supermajorities in the legislature, must find a way to close an estimated $1.6 billion shortfall soon.

Democrat lawmakers there multiple times already have violated the intent of the state’s TABOR constitutional amendment, which was intended to limit tax increases to inflation and population growth.

Instead of imposing taxes, they call them “fees.” For example, Colorado residents must pay “fees” to use roads and bridges in the state. Those outside the state don’t pay any such “fees,” but still have access to those roads and bridges.