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SB 25-045: Colorado Health-Care Payment System Analysis passed the legislature, and Gov. Polis signed it!
Read the bill: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb25-045
Check out this dedicated webpage on the Analysis from the Colorado School of Public Health.
Donate to the analysis here!
In 2021, the results from the bipartisan Colorado Health Care Cost Savings Act of 2019’s study showed Colorado could cover everyone and save billions with a single nonprofit payer for everyone’s health care
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A single payer health care payment system wins the day, saves millions to billions, and helps ALL coloradans, Colo. study finds
A nonpartisan Colorado Health Care Cost Savings Act of 2019 resulted in a study, delivered to Colorado Legislators on Sept. 1, 2021, that analyzed how a single nonprofit payer for our privately delivered health care would perform compared to our current health care system in Colorado and a system aiming toward universal coverage via many payers including for-profit health insurers.
The results show a single nonprofit payer for our privately delivered health care in Colorado would not only cover everyone and save money; it would net savings upon savings upon savings — and benefits on top of benefits.
Read our media release here.
Read the HB19-1176 Task Force Summary Report to the Legislature
Read the HB19-1176 CSPH Full Report
Gov. Jared Polis and Colo. Legislators: Act on the data! Cover everyone with health care the single payer way ASAP.
Americans are now more afraid of health care bills than we are of getting sick. In Colorado more than 350,000 are uninsured while about double that number have health insurance but cannot afford to use it due to high deductibles and copays.
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the harsh risks of having one’s health insurance tied to employment, one in four Coloradans are on Medicaid. The US and Colorado still struggle under the most expensive and outlandishly complex health care system in the world. Why? Because that system profits billionaires who stop at nothing to defeat universal health care.
But now you have clear data showing you the way forward! Want to save Coloradans money on health care? Your own experts, hired at the bequest of a bipartisan bill, tell you how.
Act on the data!
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Just 5 minutes of your day could get our communities one step closer to a more just health care system. Please remember — personal stories are the keystone to a good email or phone call.
Want to get more involved? Join our Legislative Action Team. Email Jim Potter.
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Interested in writing thoughtful blog posts or letters to the editor? Email Bill Semple.
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Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care
Phone: (720) 441-1950
Email: [email protected]
Diane Dunn, Registered Agent
1568 Perry St.
Denver, CO 80204-1459
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