The Great Colorado Roll Back: Walker Stapleton Tries to Hide His Plan to Roll Back Medicaid Expansion
This week,
In the primary, Stapleton made it clear he would shrink Medicaid expansion and cut the Medicaid rolls, and he's adamant about getting rid of the health care exchange. This would cause hundreds of thousands of Coloradans to lose healthcare, and increase the cost of health care for all
However, now he is in a general election, and he won't tell Coloradans the truth.
It's no great mystery as to why Stapleton refuses to tell the truth about his healthcare platform. The version of TrumpCare he introduced this week does little more than double down on the failed policies
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Interviewer: "Would you roll back the Medicaid expansion or not?"
Stapleton: "It's not an either/or, zero-sum game. It is how do we deal with Medicaid in a more cost effective manner so it doesn't bankrupt the state of
Interviewer: "Are you talking about potentially a sliding scale for some of the services?"
Stapleton: "It's going to be a top-down review."
Interviewer: "The health care exchange, he says, may need to be scraped all together."
Stapleton: "We're going to do another audit of the health exchange. I'm concerned about the health exchange long term viability. It has left a lot of people behind."
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