Amendment 63: keeping you out of jail
Check out this new video on Colorado Amendment 63: See also this related post: Jail time for not having (legal) health insurance? and read the text of the Amendment. More health care videos.
Amendment 63 vs. the elitist vision of the anointed
Two good letters to the editor in support of Colorado Amendment 63 – health care choice.
Amendment 63: freedom is too “haphazard” for Bell Policy Center
Huffington Post: Bob Semro of the Bell Policy Center writes that Amendment 63 would “move Colorado to a less protected, more haphazard health care system where people pay directly for services rather than having health insurance.” In other words, he doesn’t like when people have the freedom to be paying customers.
Amendment 63: Denver Post vs. liberty & the U.S. Constitution
Rob Natelson, a Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence at the Independence Institute, writes: The legal whizzes on the editorial board of the Denver Post have spoken: Amendment 63, the Right to Health Care Choice Initiative, is bad because Obama Care is constitutional. Today’s editorial reads: [W]e believe [Obama Care] will survive legal challenges and will […]
Colorado Amendment 63: refuting the “cost-shift” & other flawed opposition
Boulder Daily Camera: Health care needs real reform, but mandatory insurance does the opposite by entrenching the worst of current policies. It bans affordable insurance, increases costs, and further extends insurers’ government-granted privileges at patients’ expense.
Amendment 63 protects right to spend money on your own medical care
Writes Linda Gorman in the Salida Mountain Mail: Passing Amendment 63 in November would ensure that you will have the right to use your own money to pay for the medical care that you think you need. If you live in Colorado you need this protection, and you need it now. Colorado’s health agencies plan […]
Stand up to D.C. on health care choice
Check out the op-ed by Linda Gorman and Jon Caldara in Sunday’s Denver Post. It begins: Stop D.C. Yes on 63. Washington went too far when it passed health care reform this year. While the voters of Colorado can’t change federal law, we can amend Colorado’s constitutional Bill of Rights to guarantee a right to […]
Colorado Education Association vs. Health Care Choice (Amendment 63)
The Colorado Education Association’s flawed opposition to Colorado Amendment 63 complains that it would block the state from forcing people to enroll in Medicaid and SCHIP. If these programs are so good, why do they need to force people?
Doctor misleads voters on Colorado Amendment 63 (health care choice)
Dr. Stephen Berman is president of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a a professor with the Dept. of Pediatrics in the CU School of Medicine. His commentary in the Denver Post (Sept. 23) so misrepresents Amendment 63 that I wonder if he’s even read it.
Colorado Amendment 63: doctors for or against?
Regarding Colorado Amendment 63 (health care choice), Mike Krause of the Independence Institute writes: The 7,000 plus member Colorado Medical Society (CMS) had its annual meeting last weekend, and the Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590, aka Obama Care) was a main focus of the gathering. The CMS apparently surveyed its membership, and according to an […]
DC funds opposition to Colorado Amendment 63
The Colorado Secretary of State’s website reports that Colorado Deserves Better, the group opposing Amendment 63 received 90 percent of its $156,000 in funds from groups with addresses in Washington, DC. They include the National Education Association, the Service Employees International Union, the AFL-CIO, and the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. The three Colorado groups in […]
Amendment 63: opposition is both flawed and deceptive
Mandatory insurance takes what’s wrong with health insurance and makes it worse. It means higher costs, less incentive to please patients, and the prohibition of affordable insurance plans . Amendment 63 would block Colorado politicians from imposing mandatory insurance. It would also prevent the feds from pressuring the Colorado legislature to enforce Washington’s version of […]
