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Coloradans need relief from rising premium costs and deductibles “Nearly 80 percent of uninsured Coloradans blame the high cost on their lack of insurance, but even those with insurance find health care unaffordable largely due to insurance premiums and out-of-pocket … Continue reading →

Talking points:  Allow Coloradans to affordably access their medications! Vote for the Import Prescription Drugs from Canada Act, SB19-005. It’s already passed the Senate! Next stop: House Health and Insurance Committee. Write the committee members and urge them to support … Continue reading →

I want to keep universal health care on the table because…(personal reason or brief story) The Health Care Cost Savings Act: Provides “Just the facts” We need to see how three different ways of paying for health care compare in … Continue reading →

I was a family physician in Fremont County, Colorado for 28 years. When my patients began ending up in Intensive Care on ventilators because they could not afford their asthma medications and dying from metastatic colon cancer because they could … Continue reading →

Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News Aug. 16, 2017 Single-payer health care is still a controversial idea in the U.S., but a majority of physicians are moving to support it, a new survey finds. Fifty-six percent of doctors registered either strong … Continue reading →

Keep Universal Health Care On the Table: Talking Points for Legislators In order to keep universal health care on the table in the Colorado Legislature, grassroots supporters must show their strength! Write and call your legislators and ask them to: … Continue reading →

by Nancy Reed and James Potter We are constantly being bombarded by all the problems with our health care system and the different proposals to fix it — or at least try to tape it together. In the confusion, the … Continue reading →

Dr. George Bohmfalk practiced neurosurgery in Texas before retiring to divide his years between Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley and Charlotte, NC. In addition to being a member of  the Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care, he is active in Physicians … Continue reading →

Be part of our Friday Facebook Post Team. It’s simple, easy, and increases our impact. Contact Patricia Rice: Social@couniversalhealth.org Then, like us on Facebook, and invite your friends to like our page too. Like, Share, and Comment on our posts! www.facebook.com/COHealth4All/ Active on Twitter, … Continue reading →

Former Health Insurance Executive turned universal health champion Wendell Potter will give the keynote address at the Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care’s annual conference, to be held June 29, 2019 in Denver. Potter founded the Tarbell Institute to and … Continue reading →

She’s fought for more than a decade for all of us to have health care. That’s why on Aug. 29 in Denver, the Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care named Sen. Irene Aguilar, MD the People’s Health Care Champion. “For … Continue reading →

I want you to be well. I don’t have to like you. I don’t have to approve of you. I don’t even have to know you. I just want you to be well. How I personally may feel about how … Continue reading →

Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care Executive Director Ivan J. Miller smelled a rat. Charles Blahous from the Koch-funded Mercatus Center recently published an analysis of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill. In it, Blahous claimed that Sanders’ plan … Continue reading →

Aug. 29, 2018 Please retract and correct two recent Fact Checker articles that have disseminated misleading information: Democratic spin on Medicare-for-all is too good to be true and Democrats seize on cherry-picked claim that ‘Medicare-for-all’ would save $2 trillion, both … Continue reading →