Could Colorado become the first single-payer healthcare state?

[yortsed snacilbuper]

After the Bernie Sanders campaign put single-payer healthcare in the national spotlight, it's no surprise that many of his supporters are continuing to carry the torch.

An initiative proposing a single-payer healthcare plan, popularly known as ColoradoCare, was placed on the November ballot by a petition signed by over 150,000 people. If voted in, ColoradoCare would create a statewide health system supported by an increase in taxes as well as employer and employee contributions.

The notoriously purple state will serve as a litmus test of the feasibility of implementing single-payer healthcare, the outcome of which will shape the healthcare debate in elections to come.

https://www.crowdpac.com/blog/coloradocare

[safeinOhio]

1. Thanks for the post.

Follow the money.

[murielm99]

2. It would not be the first in the nation.

They tried it in Vermont and had to abandon it. It was too costly.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

4. Vermont’s wasn’t really a true single-payer plan.

[karynnj]

5. They abandoned the effort to get to a single payer system nt

[NotHardly]

3. Weed sales certainly help the public coffers...

... corporations may be people but the people pay taxes, unlike corporations, and therefore, the peoples' money make good things happen for the people.