If we had an honest media, the cult of Bernie would be absolutely jackhammered over this.
While Bernie Sanders is promising ‘medicare for all’ far beyond anything Canadians are dumb enough to underwrite, Blue states are already struggling to deliver on past promises.
Funny how the bills don’t magically pay for themselves when the government makes a dumb promise, isn’t it?
As we’ve seen, the cult of Bernie Sanders has big plans for Democrats next term, with one of the big-ticket items being ‘medicare for all’. How are they going to pay for it? Who knows? Who cares? They’ll find some fatcat to fleece for the bill.
Will they, though? Because that’s exactly the thinking that led Colorado to hand out freebies to illegal aliens there…
…Until the bill came due and everything changed.
Of course Colorado’s governor played that news close to the chest until there was no fear that the news would impact election results there.
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.”
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Even as Colorado faced a $1.5 billion budget shortfall in the spring—and after the program’s costs soared to nearly $105 million as illegal immigrants poured into the state, seven times more than the state expected—Democrats managed to keep Cover All Coloradans on the books, albeit with benefit reductions and enrollment caps. Polis signed off on that arrangement, which was included in this year’s budget bill, in May. Just a few months later, he was backpedaling on his support for the program.
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Democrats, with supermajorities in both chambers, will need to find a way to close an estimated $1.6 billion shortfall. Medicaid spending is projected to grow by 15 percent—Polis’s proposal reduced that to 4.3 percent. State health care spending doubled between 2015 and 2025 and is expected to take up 41 percent of the 2027 budget, according to an analysis by the right-leaning Common Sense Institute. — Free Beacon
Colorado has a supermajority of Dem voters, but even that can’t save them from the hard facts that outlandish promises are devouring the budget Colorado needs for more pressing priorities.
At some point in the not-too-distant future, Dems will face the same dilemma at the Federal level. Especially with Medicare and Old Age survivors trust projected to run dry in six short years.
Eventually, the strategy of bribing the taxpayer with their own money hits a brick wall. And when they wise up to the con, there’s gonna be hell to pay.
