The Republicans of Colorado urge the State to end Medicaid for illegal immigrants
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EXCLUSIVE: The Republicans of the Colorado Congress ask the State to stop authorizing illegal immigrants to register for the state Medicaid program, Health First Colorado.
The availability of the program to those of the country illegally that meet other coverage requirements began this year, and the Republicans presented changes in a letter to the Democratic Governor Jared Polis on Wednesday. On the Health First Colorado website, it is said: “Do not let immigration status prevent you from requesting health coverage”, citing the law of the state.
“Other States led by Democrats such as California and Minnesota are beginning to resume their policies which offer free and subsidized health care to illegal immigrants even without the major bill being the law because they know that these policies are expensive, bad offers for their beneficiaries of Medicaid”, the letter of Gabe Evans, Jeff Crank and Lauren Boebert States.
The American representative Gabe Evans, R-Colo., Expressed during a press conference at the National Republican Committee after a meeting of the Republican Chamber Conference on March 4, 2025 in Washington, DC (Tierney L. Images Cross / Getty)
“It is discouraging to see Colorado continue to double and prioritize the individuals who are illegally present, even in the face of the negative effects on the Americans who most need Medicaid, and we urge you to reverse the course”, the ” Republicans added.
As the letter notes, Colorado is one of the seven states that offer public health coverage which does not take into account the immigration status. California, Minnesota and Illinois make reforms of their Medicaid offers, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Minnesota and Illinois end the availability in the context of budgetary transactions, and California navigate in different options, such as a possible freezing of inscriptions, because its legislator has a budget. In California, a recent survey revealed that almost 60% Medicaid for illegal immigrants Despite the entry into force of the law last year.
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Immigrants are trying to pass over the razor thread after crossing the border in El Paso, Texas, El Paso, Texas. (John Moore / Getty Images)
Legislators have added that the reconciliation bill includes a provision that will considerably penalize states that offer coverage to illegal immigrants because Medicaid programs receive federal dollars and taxpayers.
“There is a renewed emergency to revise this policy in the light of the probable promulgation of federal legislation in order to reduce the percentage of federal medical assistance for the expansion population by 90% to 80% for sanctuary states which use dollars of taxpayers to cover illegal immigrants.
A spokesperson for the Polis office told Fox News Digital in a statement that the Bill of Reconciliation in the US Senate should be completely redone from the room version.
The governor of Colorado Jared Polis on stage during the Blue Sneaker Ball at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science January 5, 2019. (Andy Cross / The Denver Post via Getty Images)
“The Polis Governor is disappointed that the three legislators are trying to empty Medicaid and launch people of private insurance, which would increase insurance costs for all those who buy commercial insurance due to the cost change. Thanks to their votes – which they would try to distract – nearly 400,000 coloradans would lose health care, which would also increase costs for everyone,” said almost 400,000 Coloradans.
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“The Polis Governor continues to call the Senate to start from scratch with this terrible bill, in particular by really protecting Medicaid and by extending critical subsidies for those who buy plans on health exchange so that coloradans can afford health care.”
