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November 26, 2015

Colorado mulls state-run ‘single-payer' health care

  • It's on the 2016 ballot. Backers hope that dissatisfaction with the federal health law will make Colorado the first state to set up universal health care.
    • By KRISTEN WYATT
    Associated Press

    DENVER — A new plan for government-run health care that covers everyone is coming from a surprising corner: Colorado, a politically moderate swing state where Republicans and Democrats often share control of state government.

    Universal coverage proposals — known as “single-payer” — have failed time and again in the United States. Left-leaning Vermont recently pursued such a system, only to abandon it as too expensive. President Obama's health care law doesn't cover everyone and has sparked enormous political backlash.


     
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