Colorado To Decide On Universal Health Care

Posted by | November 13, 2015 08:00 | Filed under: Politics


First legalized marijuana, now universal health care? As reported by the Denver Post, Colorado is now poised to consider the possibility of expanding its health coverage in a way never before seen in the United States via a single-payer insurance system — thanks to a successful campaign run by ColoradoCareYES. The grassroots group presented 158,831 signatures…

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By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.

11 responses to Colorado To Decide On Universal Health Care

  1. Budda November 13th, 2015 at 09:21

    People will complain about a “new tax” yet they don’t have the smarts to realize that it replaces their insurance premiums…and will will most likely cost less!

  2. mistlesuede November 13th, 2015 at 10:15

    Nothing will ever change if we don’t try new ideas. I hope they give it a chance in Colorado and that it is more successful than what happened in Vermont. I hope they learned from their mistakes and make it better.

    • Tommie November 13th, 2015 at 10:31

      You are right and if it works, hopefully, it will be implemented across the nation!

      • mistlesuede November 13th, 2015 at 10:36

        That would be great. In the meantime, a lot can be learned from the experiment.

  3. Um Cara November 13th, 2015 at 10:59

    Similarly, there are already naysayers who decry even the possibility of a similar system in Colorado. “A single-payer system would destroy our industry. I don’t think there’s any question about it,”

    Good

  4. Jimmy Fleck November 13th, 2015 at 11:05

    I can see a lot of big employers in favor of this. They could drop their insurance payments and probably either lower raises or flat out lower payroll based on the new 7% tax that they would be paying. Surely you don’t expect the business to just volunteer 7% of its payroll out of the goodness of their hearts do you? So now everyone would be paying for 100% of their own healthcare costs. I would also expect the 10% number to rise sharply in the first couple of years as the hospitals are flooded with people wanting their “free” healthcare. I mean no premiums, no co-pays, and no deductibles? Why wouldn’t everyone just head straight to the doctor whenever they sneeze?

    • arc99 November 13th, 2015 at 11:23

      Since your scenario has not played out anywhere else in the western world where universal health care has been place for decades, I will file your predictions right next to that skewed poll Romney landslide.

      But seriously folks, your post really sums up the core issue here in the United States

      You say “” Surely you don’t expect the business to just volunteer 7% of its payroll out of the goodness of their hearts do you?””

      No I do not.

      I have fully recognized that unlike western Europe and Scandinavia which have their priorities in order when it comes to social welfare, in this country, nothing is more important than profit, not even human beings. That is the ugly little truth behind all the happy talk about America being the greatest nation on earth. Maybe one day, we will measure greatness by some other standard than firepower and ability to kill people.

    • arc99 November 13th, 2015 at 11:33

      Obviously, opinions vary. I can probably find a study with different findings. But the story I linked to below is interesting nonetheless. Universal single payer health insurance works and to be blunt, your argument would be a lot more convincing if you had some actual facts to back up what you claim instead of the same old tired doom and gloom predictions I have heard from conservatives since I was a child in the 1960’s hearing about commies lurking on every street corner waiting to steal our liberty.

      Remember, while still an actor, Ronald Reagan warned us about a sinister new program that would be the first step towards turning America into a Soviet style dictatorship. That sinister new program turned out to be what we now call Medicare.

      Conservatives in this country are lousy at predicting the future, especially when it comes to healthcare.

      http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/17/nhs-health

      The NHS has been declared the best healthcare system by an international panel of experts who rated its care superior to countries which spend far more on health.

      The same study also castigated healthcare provision in the US as the worst of the 11 countries it looked at. Despite putting the most money into health, America denies care to many patients in need because they do not have health insurance and is also the poorest at saving the lives of people who fall ill, it found.

  5. Kick Frenzy November 14th, 2015 at 00:15

    I really hope they pass this, along with smart ways to implement it.
    Like, a slow transition over 10 years or something.

    It’s too bad Vermont wasn’t able to do this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they could at some point, especially with more creative methods in making it happen.

  6. maggie November 14th, 2015 at 02:46

    colorado leading the way….follow brilliant ideas people wherever you find them…;) take credit colorado…for putting innovation into practice…

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