ICYMI: Denver Gazette Supports Gabe Evans’ Effort to Protect Medicaid for Colorado’s Most Vulnerable
While Democrats are lying and fear-mongering, a new editorial from The Denver Gazettesets the record straight regarding illegal immigrants straining Medicaid for Coloradans and supports Gabe Evans’ commonsense effort to strengthen and protect Medicaid for the state’s most vulnerable communities.
Reminder: Democrats were forced to remove a billboard in Northern Colorado after desperately lying about Gabe Evans’ effort to protect Medicaid for Colorado’s most vulnerable.
Read the full editorial from The Denver Gazette here or excerpts below:
Stop Stealing Health Care From Those Who Pay For It
The Denver Gazette
Gazette Editorial Board
June 25, 2025
Colorado’s extension of Medicaid coverage to illegal immigrants strains a system meant to serve our most vulnerable citizens. That’s why compassionate Coloradans, regardless of political ideologies, should stand with U.S. Reps. Gabe Evans, Lauren Boebert and Jeff Crank, who last week urged Gov. Jared Polis to end this unjust practice.
Their call to protect Medicaid for those it was designed to help — disabled individuals, single mothers, children and seniors — resonates with reason and fairness. Medicaid’s purpose is clear: to provide a safety net for low-income and disabled Americans who lack other options.
Yet, Colorado extended state-funded coverage to about 18,000 illegal immigrants, based on research by Colorado Politics and Denver7 News, through the programs OmniSalud and Cover All Coloradans.
The coverage extended to illegal immigrants alone costs taxpayers more than $70 million annually in scarce resources diverted from traditional American beneficiaries. This isn’t an expansion of care; it’s a redistribution scheme that exacerbates demand without increasing the supply of health care services.
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The exorbitant spending on health care for illegal immigrants isn’t enough for Insurance Commissioner Michael Conway, who last month threatened to take money from the state’s reinsurance program to fund more care for illegal immigrants. The scheme would increase premiums for legal Western Slope families by an average of $13,000 annually, leaving most of them to forgo insurance to provide it for illegal immigrants.
“Each new dollar we choose to invest in care for illegal immigrants is a dollar that could go to supporting long-term care for seniors or keeping our rural hospitals open,” says the Evans, Crank and Boebert letter.
Polis, heed this call. With federal Medicaid cuts looming, Colorado should refocus Medicaid on Americans who deserve and need it most. Prioritizing health care for those here unlawfully is neither sustainable, just nor compassionate. Let’s restore Medicaid’s mission and ensure care reaches those it was meant to protect.