Medicare for all will happen only when the people rise up and make it happen. Polls show that the majority of Americans want the same access to universal health care that the rest of the industrial world enjoys. Yet big medicine controls the Washington establishment. Washington is so protective of big medicine that states may be our best hope for change. So, in Colorado, we’ve moved the battle away from Washington. In November, Colorado voters can decide to create a program like Medicare for all Coloradans by voting for ColoradoCare, Amendment 69.
After eight years of preparation by economists, policy experts, and legislative staff showed that ColoradoCare is a plan that works, the political establishment would not even allow the Colorado Legislature to vote on it. Independent-minded Coloradans would not be stopped and gathered 158,831 petition signatures to put the question back into the hands of the voters.
Colorado has designed a plan that can succeed and spread.
Even opponents agree that if ColoradoCare wins in November, it could mark the beginning of the end for the insurance industry profiteers. That’s why opponents nationally are targeting Colorado for the showdown. If Coloradans choose this Medicare for all-like system, the national movement for single payer will be energized by the victory. Other states will follow.
With eight years of development in the Colorado legislature under the leadership of State Sen. Irene Aguilar, MD, the ColoradoCare plan eliminates billions in unnecessary insurance-related administration and system waste. ColoradoCare provides health care coverage for everyone, attractive compensation to providers, and still save billions. It is designed as a nonprofit cooperative business, owned and operated by all of Colorado’s residents.
Please join in supporting the health care revolution:
I stand with ColoradoCare. I stand for a system like Medicare for all. I stand for straightforward, quality, accessible health care for all.
Colorado, as part of the Wild West, is the place for the imminent showdown between the grassroots that created ColoradoCare and a multi-billionaire alliance of the Koch brothers, the national insurance industry, the Chambers of Commerce (who also led the fight to stop Medicare), multinational corporations such as McDonald’s, and the political leaders who enable the health care profiteers. The opposition group is called “Coloradans for Coloradans,” but only one-tenth of one percent of their donations come from actual people; a whopping 99.9% of their donations come from national and multinational corporations.
The need for ColoradoCare is great. Almost one out of four Coloradans is either uninsured or under-insured. Almost one out of four Coloradans is on Medicaid, a program that is so underfunded it does not have an adequate number of providers. For Coloradans, Amendment 69 is about getting good health care when needed, and for many, it’s about life and death.
For the corporate opposition, it is about money.
MSNBC summed it up: The outcome in November will depend on whether ColoradoCare gets the national and in-state support, money, and moxie to win the showdown. ColoradoCare is the right plan. Polling shows broad-based support for Medicare for all. The question is whether ColoradoCareYES can attract the funding and support needed to spread the word to the majority of Coloradans. We in the campaign are ready for the fight, but we know we need support from health care revolutionaries around the country.
Join in supporting the health care revolution in Colorado by taking the pledge:
I stand with ColoradoCare. I stand for a system like Medicare for all. I stand for straightforward, quality, accessible health care for all.
The political revolution needs solidarity. When Colorado wins universal health care, many more states will follow. Eventually the revolution can change even Washington. The states must lead the way.