- Everyone’s covered
- No deductibles
- Colorado providers will all likely choose to be in network
- You choose your doctor
- Shared responsibility
- Locally owned and operated
- Much simpler
- Less fraud, waste, and abuse
- Less bureaucracy
- More freedom
- It costs a lot less
- It’s morally right
- It’s what most doctors and nurses want
- It’s better for everyone
- You get to vote on management
- Shared ownership
- Similar systems already work for millions of people
- Follows the constitution
- Allows you to change employment without fear of losing insurance
- Helps you become a better person (by changing a system that hurts many)
- Quality will improve with transparency
- Coordinates medical records with ID protection
- Statewide ID-scrubbed data can help researchers faster discover what works best
- Doctor errors will be reduced
- Increases feelings of solidarity in the community
- Covers pre-existing conditions
- Follows the Holy Bible
- Helps businesses reduce health care costs
- Reduces incentives to offshore manufacturing
- Helps business be more profitable and efficient
- Will bring jobs to Colorado
- Will serve as a model for the nation
- Fewer federal politicians involved
- Fewer lobbyists to bribe politicians involved
- Less redundancy in the system
- Republicans like it because it saves money
- Democrats like it because it covers everyone
- Everybody likes it because it’s the right thing to do
- Cheaper prescription drugs
- More access to care
- You go to the doctor that’s right for you—they’re all in network
- You go to the hospital that’s right for you—they’re all in network
- You don’t have to worry every day about losing coverage
- Your employer can now afford to give you a raise
- Your raise from last year won’t be taken up by increased health care cost
- Businesses will move to Colorado for the great health system
- Colorado will go from awesome to super awesome
- Colorado is already one of the healthiest states so it just makes sense to do it
- The doctors and nurses will be cuter because you get to choose them
- Insurance companies may have to stop giving $100 million salaries
- No more dumping poor patients at homeless shelters or on the street
- That finger you accidentally cut off will be sewed back on even if you are poor
- We can now afford valet parking at the emergency room instead of limping in
- Prices will be transparent
- Bills will be readable and simple
- Charity will be real instead of pretend (✓Brothers keepers ✕ throwing peanuts)
- Those in the donut hole will actually get to eat donuts
- Less corruption
- Less greed
- Chronic illnesses will be reduced
- People will live longer happier lives
- America will no longer be #1 for anxiety
- People who hate their jobs won’t have to keep working at them just for health insurance
- People from other countries will no longer think all of America is heartless
- The common good will now be in common
- Insurance companies will no longer look for reasons to deny high-cost patients
- Health care will focus on improving health instead of making profits off disease
- We will no longer charge $10.00 for a Tylenol
- Patients sick and in pain will no longer be required to fill out pages and pages of paperwork before we help them
- Each doctor will no longer need two people just to work with the insurance company
- Health practitioners will spend more time with patients and less time on paperwork
- Politicians will finally realize that corruption isn’t the only way to get things done
- You can live in a ski town and your premiums will be the same
- You can live in a rural area and still access quality comprehensive health care
- Jesus healed those with pre-existing conditions and offered universal health care at no cost so:
- What would a Coloradan do?
- You will no longer have to steal someone’s identity to pretend to have health coverage
- People will no longer be required to commit crimes to get health care in prison
- Healthy people contribute much more to society than sick people
- The Pope is for it
- Business is for it (Think the chambers represent business? Nope)
- We can live fully, go for it, and know we’re covered
- The people denying care will now have the opportunity to provide care
- People who love each other will have more time with each other (instead of on the phone fighting insurance denials or dying an early death)
- The Good Samaritan will now be from Colorado
- Insurance administrators will stop deciding what health care you get
- The health care system will support everyone’s wellbeing
- Coloradans can focus on creativity and innovation.
- Artists will have health care.
- Entrepreneurs will have health care.
- Everyone will have health care
- The American dream will get a boost in Colorado.
- When you have to take your child to the ER, you can skip the panic re: cost.
- Ditto any loved one
- Stress—one of the major precursors to every major illness—will lesson across Colorado
- When data supports that receiving massage therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture, or physical therapy will help you get well, it will be covered.
- Everyone will have more time to have fun.
- Doctors, patients, administrators…everyone will have less paperwork to fill out
- You won’t have to fill out the same paperwork every time you see a new doctor
- When your neighbor is sick, you can just bake the casserole and skip the Go Fund Me campaign
Universal Health Care for Colorado
