Democrats in the Colorado Legislature recently got together to pat themselves on the back for wrecking Medicaid while simultaneously blaming President Trump for the fallout. This circle-of-virtue was brought to you by Colorado Newsline, which attended this Democrat-only caucus event where legislators whined about health care accessibility, again, without acknowledging who actually broke the system. Spoiler: It wasn’t Trump; it was them.
The Bullet Point Brief
- Democrats held a caucus brainstorming session, complete with tears and blame for President Trump, while ignoring their own policies.
- Lawmakers complained about food insecurity and rising health costs… You know, the stuff their bloated welfare dreams and printed money under the guise of COVID relief made worse.
- The left pushed extra Medicaid “equity” programs that swallowed cash like a Vegas slot machine, with less chance of payout.
- No one mentioned the costly burdens Dems added to Medicaid like ESG compliance requirements and redundant DEI layers.
My Bottom Line
Democrats love holding these little echo chamber cry-ins where they all brainstorm ways to grow government bloat while pretending someone else lit the dumpster fire they’re standing in. And this last session? A master class in self-inflicted martyrdom. Like toddlers blaming imaginary friends after flipping over the dinner table.
Let me spell it out: This Medicaid mess is homegrown crap, courtesy of progressive politicians spoon-feeding the state virtue-signaling nonsense that’s more expensive than useful. When you mandate ESG standards on coverage rules or force providers to speak fluent DEI before treating patients, you don’t improve outcomes; you make bureaucracy thicker than molasses.
Meanwhile, they drag their blamethrowers back out to roast Trump, as if he ghostwrote Colorado’s policies from Mar-a-Lago. Trump didn’t jack up your healthcare premiums or pass green-coded social equity amendments into Medicaid budgeting, Colorado Dems did that themselves. So yeah, as you point toward Washington D.C., those three fingers pointed right back at you? They’re flipping off every hardworking Coloradan drowning under this bloated public program while you’re too busy playing dress-up in your activist circles.
If Democrats are serious about fixing this (they’re not), they’d start slashing non-essential virtue costs out of Medicaid and stop trying to save the world through moral megaphones funded by taxpayers. We don’t need ideological band-aids slapped onto a bleeding system; we need competent reform that puts health over hashtags.
