T.R. Reid, State Sen. Irene Aguilar, M.D., & CPR’s Eric Whitney headline health forum

What’s Next for Health Care Reform?
Colorado can lead the way.

The Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care hosted a Health Care Panel discussion with audience participation: 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 at Hale Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Click here to watch a video of the forum. Check out this opinion piece on the event in Health News Colorado.

State Sen. Irene Aguilar, physician and Chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee; proponent of the idea for a Colorado Health Care Cooperative.
T.R. Reid, author of the best-selling “The Healing of America,” documentary filmmaker of “U.S. Health Care: The Good News” and “Sick Around the World,” and frequent guest on National Public Radio.
Eric Whitney, Health reporter for Colorado Public Radio and National Public Radio.
Julie Carpenter, M.D., Moderator, recently retired from 40 years as a family physician, has first-hand experience with the health and payment issues which have affected her patients’ care throughout her career.

Colorado-grown health care: For you, for us, for less.

Can Colorado have the best health care in the nation? The panel discussed the strengths and weaknesses of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and its provision that states can obtain federal reform dollars via a waiver for state innovation if they can set up a better system.
The Colorado Health Care Cooperative is such a system— a universal health care proposal that would create a better, simpler, and less expensive health care system.

“…and if states can come up with even better ways of covering more people at the same quality and cost, this law allows them to do that, too. And I’ve asked Congress to help speed up that process, and give states this flexibility in year one (2014).”

~President Barack Obama, June 28, 2012, responding to the Supreme Court of the United States’ ruling to uphold the Affordable Care Act