Single-payer health care failed miserably in Colorado last year. Here’s why.

I personally thought our system of healthcare prior to Obamacare was adequate and I had good insurance and so did my family. My deductibles were reasonable, my out-of-pocket expenses were manageable, and I had a lot of choices for doctors, specialist, hospitals, etc. Now it's crap and I don't think a Single-Payer Health care system is the way to go either. Anything that the Government touches these days seems to go to crap. Let's roll back the healthcare system to pre Obamacare and work from there. Just my opinion and 2 cents this fine morning!

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In theory, this is a good idea. In practice, no. Because, the money has to come from somewhere. And where will that money come from? Taxes raised on an extreme level. Ole Bernie is trying to submit a Bill for this very thing, and even he admits he has no idea where the money will come from. That right there, is enough to realize that this is a dead plan. On top of the fact that of the irony of this: Think about it. People are tired of Big Government having their hands in everything, yet people want to turn around and hand the Government more control with ideas like this.

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"Amendment 69, the Colorado Creation of ColoradoCare System Initiative, would have created a system in which all Coloradans would gain insurance through a tax-funded government insurance program. Private health insurers would have been rendered obsolete.
The Colorado initiative bears a resemblance to the Medicare-for-all legislation released by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) this week and endorsed by leading Democrats like Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and to HR 676, Rep. John Conyers’s (D-MI) single-payer proposal which has the support of a large majority of House Democrats.
Colorado’s initiative, in other words, matched the 2017 health care platform of the Democratic Party. And it failed — really, really, really badly.
“The proposal came too soon and too fast for where voters were,” Joel Dyar, who worked as state field director for the ColoradoCare Yes campaign, says.
Some of that failure is attributable to the unique challenges of adopting single-payer through a ballot initiative, and at the state level. Because Colorado’s constitution bans public funding for abortions, ColoradoCare would’ve taken away access to abortion from the hundreds of thousands of women currently in private health plans that cover the procedure. That earned the amendment the opposition of NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado and Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, two leading progressive groups in the state. “They didn’t check in advance to see if this was a problem,” Karen Middleton, the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado, recalls. “By the time anyone had seen the language, it was already locked in.”
Thanks for alerting me COL Mikel J. Burroughs