Posted on 11/10/2015 3:02:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Supporters of universal health care have gathered enough signatures to put on next year's ballot a plan to make Colorado the first state to opt out of the federal health law and replace it with taxpayer-funded coverage for all.
Proponents submitted 158,831 qualified signatures, about 60,000 more than required to put the measure on the ballot, Secretary of State Wayne Williams said Monday. The question would make Colorado the first state to opt out of the federal Affordable Care Act and replace it with universal health care.
The campaign is expected to face intense opposition and could make for a heavily funded, highly visible debate over the viability of single-payer health care in a key swing state in the 2016 presidential election...
(Excerpt) Read more at america.aljazeera.com ...
I live in colorado.... can we sell boulder to commie china and give those dirt smelling hippies a taste of what communism is really all about?
I actually have no problem with this.
If individual states decide they want to commit economic suicide, they should have the right to do so.
Good. let the states balkanize. The liberals can go to their enclaves and stave freezing in the dark. With non functional healthcare.
The rest of us will be better for their loss. If you live in liberal territory, leave before they stop allowing you to leave, folks. If your material goods are more a value than your/family, then stay. Can’t have both ways.
Don't worry. Once CO has borrowed to the hilt to provide "free" healthcare to its citizens and no longer can avoid insolvency, the next Dem president cause the federal government assume CO's debt and make you pay for it.
That is where I would have a problem. ;)
Would ObaMao even allow this? Once it is under state control, the Commies in Denver, not the Commies in DC will be calling the shots.
AP at Aljazeera!? Really!? WOW!
Didn’t Vermont already fail at this? Round two!
Colorado...you’ll be sorry if you do that!
“Out of the frying pan, and into the fire!”.
Free health care for everybody
Pot is medicine
Free pot for everybody
Fairly good point. But, when it all fails, where do they get the money to cover their losses? Us, the taxpayer!
“Employees would have a payroll tax of about 3 percent.”
Uh...NO!!!!
IT WOULD BE CLOSER TO 10%!!
3% is simply the LIE TO MAKE THE SALE.
They also neglect to mention that...
THE EMPLOYED PAY FOR ALL OF THE FREELOADERS!!!!
That’s great!
That is what should have happened from the start ... each State make their own health insurance/health care laws.
Yup. When they realized the cost of single-payer(heavy taxes) just to maintain the same level of care they now have, they blanched then scrapped the voter approved plan.
It’ll pass here.
People are sick of Republicans who promise to get rid of Obamacare and fund it and Democrats who fund it but give us crappy private health insurace.
They simply have no credibility.
If the Constitution were being followed voters cannot vote in laws that violate the Constitution.
Yup.
People like Santa Claus. I’ll be surprised if they don’t go for “free” health care here.
And remember, people will vote around the holiday season.
Actually states can do what they want.
I’m in favor of allowing states to decide what health care system best suits them instead of having it run from Washington.
Employers pay 7% and employees pay 3%.
The plan is somewhat different from Canada Medicare is that its financed by a payroll tax rather than out of general revenue.
In regards to the principle: it will be publicly financed but remain privately delivered.
Its main opponent is the private health insurance industry.
People have no real love for them.
Their sky-high premiums and skimpy network coverage is going to be an issue.
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