Attend a town hall meeting with your state representative and senator and tell them you want them to vote for a bill to put the measure on the Colorado ballot. When the legislature passes the bill, you can campaign for… Read More »What can I do to help get a ballot measure passed?
A savings account would not control the cost of health care. It would help some higher income Coloradans pay for their health care but 40% of Coloradans don’t make enough money to set aside more than $500.00 in a savings… Read More »Would a tax-free savings account be a better way to ensure Coloradans have enough money to pay for their health Care?
Yes, as long as your primary residence is Colorado. You can go to a health care provider in another State and the health care provider will be able to file a claim with the Colorado health care enterprise for reimbursement.
Yes, as long as your son or daughter is a Colorado resident. Your son or daughter can go to a health care provider in the State where they are attending college and the health care provider will be able to… Read More »If my son or daughter is attending a college in another state will the Colorado plan cover my son or daughter?
The Colorado Plan would be overseen by a board made up of health care providers and consumers who are accountable to the people of Colorado to assure administrative costs are held to a low percentage of total costs. Currently your… Read More »How would Coloradans make sure the administrators of the State health care plan are not overpaid?
The funds would be secure in an enterprise and could only be used to pay for Coloradan’s health care. The legislature could not borrow from the Health Care Fund to pay for a road or a bridge or anything else.
Some health care providers might move to other States to make more money, but the Colorado Plan would make sure physicians, nurse practitioners, physical therapists in private practice are reimbursed a fair rate for the services they provide. The health… Read More »Would we lose healthcare providers because we limited their ability to make as much money as they can make filing claims with private commercial health insurance companies? Would they move to another State?
We will save money because we will avoid the unnecessary administrative cost of our current way of financing health care like corporate profits and extremely high compensation packages for private health care corporations’ chief executive officers. Also, we will be… Read More »Why would we save money if we paid a premium to a state-owned enterprise for our health care instead of paying premiums to private commercial health insurance companies
No. Several states are trying to get coverage for all their residents but so far, no state has provided universal health care. Advocates in New York, California, Washington, Oregon and Vermont are working on legislation to cover their residents and… Read More »Do other states cover all their residents?
Yes, however the current political environment will make it unlikely a national plan will be implemented in the near future. It is more likely some States like Colorado will take the lead passing universal health care legislation. In Canada, Saskatchewan… Read More »Shouldn’t this problem be solved at the National level rather than the State level?
It fixed some problems but not everything we should fix. It required private commercial health insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions, it gave states permission to expand Medicaid eligibility, and it requires private commercial health insurance companies to… Read More »Didn’t the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) fix all the problems?
No, we don’t have the best health care system in the world. We have some of the best health care providers in the world but some of us can’t afford their care. All other Developed countries cover all their residents,… Read More »Comparing the U.S. to other countries seems unamerican to me. Doesn’t the U.S. do everything better than all the other countries? Don’t we have the best health care system in the world?