amendment 69
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DPS COCare savings lower than others
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Colorado’s nearly 200 school districts, plus cities, counties and other local governments, could save more than $542 million in taxpayer money, if state voters approve Amendment 69, in this fall’s election. Information gathered by backers of the amendment – which would create the $25 billion nonprofit ColoradoCare statewide universal health care program to replace current private…
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Green Party’s Jill Stein campaigns in Colorado, woos voters wary of major party choices
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The Green Party’s Jill Stein made a presidential campaign stop in the Centennial State Saturday, courting the undecided Colorado voter, dissatisfied with the two major party candidates. Stein, a physician from Massachusetts, rallied a modest group of supporters at Colorado Springs’ Acacia Park, before leading a march through downtown chanting political battle cries like “Jill not…
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Gorman: ColoradoCare guarantees higher taxes but not health care
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If passed in November, Amendment 69 creates a bureaucracy called ColoradoCare. It will have a larger budget than the entire state of Colorado. Amendment 69 increases Colorado’s income tax rate by an additional 10 percent to fund ColoradoCare. The state income tax rate will be 14.63 percent, the nation’s highest. Amendment 69 exempts ColoradoCare from…
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Silverii: Doing the right thing isn’t always easy
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As readers may have heard in the news, on television or on the radio, the Board of Directors of ProgressNow Colorado has voted to oppose Amendment 69, the “ColoradoCare” health care ballot measure, despite our broad agreement with the ColoradoCare campaign’s stated goals. I wanted to take a moment to explain why we made this…
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Aguilar: ColoradoCare: Real progress, right now
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ProgressNow, a nonprofit that claims to support progressive issues, came out against ColoradoCare/Amendment 69. With this decision, the organization abandoned the people of Colorado and joined forces with status quo establishment politicians and profit- driven private insurers who make it their business to deny care to those who need it most. ProgressNow abandoned legendary progressive…
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Carroll says she isn’t supporting ColoradoCare ballot measure
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Democratic congressional candidate Morgan Carroll said Friday she is opposing Amendment 69, the Colorado ballot measure known as ColoradoCare, saying that problems with health care costs and coverage need solutions at the national level. The proposal would create universal health care in the state, run by a single insurer financed by payroll taxes, payments for…
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Progressive groups rupture, oppose ColoradoCare
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Calling it a “well-intentioned but flawed proposal,” a leading progressive organization has decided to oppose the ColoradoCare amendment that would create a state-run health care program. The board of directors of ProgressNow Colorado voted to oppose Amendment 69 on the Colorado general election ballot, despite broad agreement with the ColoradoCare campaign’s stated goals. “The first…
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Blake: On the initiatives, just say ‘no’
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I love the initiative process in theory. Power to the people! In practice, not so much. At least this year. Like a pianist playing scales, I used to warm up for my biennial ballot concerto by quickly flipping the “no” lever on all the judges up for retention. It not only flexed the fingers, it…
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Unger: Why conservatives should vote yes on ColoradoCare
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This coming November, Coloradans will vote on ColoradoCare, Amendment 69. As I talk with folks about this initiative, people seem to think that liberals will vote yes and conservatives will vote no. I think this is an issue for everyone who cares about people’s health and wasting huge amounts of money. I think conservatives should…
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Backers of five measures beat petition deadline
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Backers of five proposed ballot measures beat the Friday deadline and submitted petition signatures for verification, bringing the total number of possible ballot measures voters could face in the November general election to 11. Boxes of petition signatures were turned in that would ask voters whether to allow local governments to ban oil-and-gas development, triple…
