Co Healthcare Coalition Action

08/25/2025

Please join our zoom tomorrow - TUES 8/26 at 7pm to see how YOU can power the push for a universal healthcare in Colorado! RSVP for link here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Rjn-RFrpTXuLQs0vE35y-Q
Dear Friends of CO Healthcare Coalition:
We are happy to announce that there will be a virtual fundraiser ZOOM for recently passed CO bill SB25-045: "Health Care Payment System Analysis" on Tuesday, Aug 26, at 7 - 8 pm.
We are so glad the bill passed the CO legislature! However, it was not funded. We need your help to fund the study by the CO School of Public Health. We can do this!
Once we get the complete study by the end of 2026, the work will begin to put Single-Payer Universal Healthcare on the ballot for 2028. It's a long haul - but we're in it to win it!
We will follow up with an RSVP to get the zoom link in the coming weeks. We are a 501.c.3, so your donation is tax deductible.
Thanks so much for standing for statewide universal healthcare!

Please join us at a ZOOM fundraiser for SB25-045 Health Care Payment System Analysis on Tuesday, Aug 26, at 7 to 8 pm (Mountain Time). The analysis by the Colorado School of Public Health will help us understand how we can have state based universal health care here in Colorado. We’ll hear from st...

08/07/2025

SAVE THE DATE Tuesday, Aug 26, 7 to 8 pm via zoom - RSVP for link here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Rjn-RFrpTXuLQs0vE35y-Q

Dear Friends of CO Healthcare Coalition:

We are happy to announce that there will be a virtual fundraiser ZOOM for recently passed CO bill SB25-045: "Health Care Payment System Analysis" on Tuesday, Aug 26, at 7 - 8 pm.

We are so glad the bill passed the CO legislature! However, it was not funded. We need your help to fund the study by the CO School of Public Health. We can do this!

Once we get the complete study by the end of 2026, the work will begin to put Single-Payer Universal Healthcare on the ballot for 2028. It's a long haul - but we're in it to win it!

We will follow up with an RSVP to get the zoom link in the coming weeks. We are a 501.c.3, so your donation is tax deductible.

Thanks so much for standing for statewide universal healthcare!

Please see below these important details for donations to: Colorado Healthcare Payment System Analysis (This is the new webpage for SB25-045.) ******************************************************************************************************************* **INDIVIDUAL DONORS ONLY** By Ch...

07/23/2025

THERE IS HOPE FOR A BETTER HEALTHCARE FUTURE!
A recent news report (available at sunlightreportinsurance.com - link in comment) revealed that over the past decade the UnitedHealth Group had added close to 2,700 subsidiaries, acquiring physician groups, home health providers, specialty pharmacies, and data analytics firms. This has reshaped the U.S. health care system: UnitedHealth now employs or contracts 1 in 10 doctors, controls 20% of the pharmacy benefits market and receives trillions of U.S. tax dollars. Rather than prioritize health care delivery, UnitedHealth is profit-driven, but now faces serious stock reversals.

According to The Colorado Sun on July 17, “Colorado health insurers propose huge price increases following passage of GOP’s federal spending bill,” one consequence for people on the Western slope seeking health insurance is the recent news that Colorado insurance carriers are asking for a 38% increase in price in the coming year. Depending on a person’s age, family size and where they live this could amount to hundreds or thousands of dollars more per year just to have health insurance.

But there is hope for a better way. Health care does not respond efficiently to market forces as UnitedHealth is learning. Instead, as an alternative, this year the Colorado General Assembly commissioned the Colorado Health Care Payment System Analysis to conduct a new study that will analyze options for implementing a universal health payment system that ensures access to high quality for all Coloradans. The study will analyze model legislation for implementing a single-payer, nonprofit, publicly financed and privately delivered system which will be submitted to Colorado voters in the future.

Joan MacEachen MD, MPH
Durango

07/13/2025

Beware.

The database, called ISO ClaimSearch, is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.

06/27/2025

TONIGHT!!!

06/26/2025

Please join us Friday 6/27 6-8p at the Durango Library!
“In the last legislative session, the Colorado Legislature passed a bill which commissions the Colorado School of Public Health to study how we might implement universal health care in Colorado. Universal health care simply means that everyone can get the health care they need, regardless of how much money they have.

The Colorado Healthcare Coalition, a locally-based nonprofit, believes that it is very important that CSPH understands the challenges and concerns around health care in our rural areas. CHC is sponsoring meetings to allow people to express their concerns and have that information passed to CSPH.

The first meeting will be 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 27, at the Durango Public Library. The second meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, at the Mancos Library. We are also working on scheduling a meeting in Pagosa Springs.

These are nonpartisan meetings and everyone is invited. We want and need to hear from you. You can find more information at cohccoalition.org/news. We will also gladly except written comments. Send those to info@cohccoalition.org.”

Guinn Unger
Bayfield

In the last legislative session, the Colorado Legislature passed a bill which commissions the Colorado School of Public Health to study how we might implement universal health care in Colorado. Univer...

06/24/2025

Please speak up ASAP!!! If you live in La Plata County, PLEASE TAKE ACTION! “This meeting is being hosted by the La Plata County Commissioners here in Durango, so you can send us a comment here: https://www.lpcgov.org/departments/board_of_county_commissioners/contact_us_bocc.php OR you can attend on Zoom (open the link below) or you can attend, 1101 East 2nd at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow (6/24/25). If the resolution is approved, we will send it to federal electeds.”

Americans across the political spectrum like Medicaid and think it should get more funding, not less, according to a new poll from health research organization KFF.

06/23/2025

On May 31st, the Single Payer Healthcare National Day of Action, we held a great rally in Durango. HERE'S THE YOUTUBE OF OUR SPEAKERS! They discussed the devastating impacts of the GOP's proposed cuts to healthcare funding for Medicaid, Medicare, and Veteran's Administration services. We heard from 2 physicians, a social worker, a therapist, and 2 activists for disability and Veterans rights. We also heard from an expert on the recently passed Colorado bill SB25-045, the first step to creating a universal healthcare single payer system covering all Coloradans.

The movement for Universal Healthcare in Colorado is building! We are fed up with for-profit healthcare which denies claims, extracts exorbitant costs from us all, and neglects the rights of patients and doctors to determine the best course of treatment. Contact the Colorado Healthcare Coalition to join us: info@cohccoalition.org

Speakers discuss the devastating impacts of the GOP's proposed cuts to healthcare funding for Medicaid, Medicare, and Veteran's Administration services. We h...