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| Colorado looking to replace Obamacare with State Single Payer plan |
| 2015-10-26 |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #18 I can't recall the details. I only recalled the number, $50 billion. |
| Posted by: badanov 2015-10-26 20:53 |
| #17 Ohio's plan back in 2008 was $50 billion, I was a bit distracted in 2008. What plan was this, badanov? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-10-26 20:12 |
| #16 Do they have a plan for when all the doctors leave the state? |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2015-10-26 20:08 |
| #15 Pass a 100% tax on grass stipulating that all proceeds go to healthcare and to include addiction treatment. /sarc |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2015-10-26 18:46 |
| #14 Ohio's plan back in 2008 was $50 billion, and that number was just the sticker price. You can increase that by an order of magnitude for the operations costs. |
| Posted by: badanov 2015-10-26 18:39 |
| #13 But think of the possibilities for graft... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-26 16:44 |
| #12 And when the state goes belly up Big Brother will be waiting to take over. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-10-26 15:56 |
| #11 Oh, so they want the VA for everyone. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-10-26 15:53 |
| #10 idiot mental midgets well never stop |
| Posted by: newc 2015-10-26 15:11 |
| #9 I blame weed. They legalized it two years ago and now the landscape has as many dope shops as 7-11s, and the stoners are running the asylum. Their state-run exchange failed. Their health Co-Op failed. So let's double down and literally go for broke w/single payer. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2015-10-26 14:20 |
| #8 It's all done with Somebody Else's Money™, so it's OK! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-10-26 13:17 |
| #7 Colorado has gone off the rails all by itself. You can't blame California. Behold, marijuana is still illegal in California and single payer has yet to be enacted here. I'd wager that the majority of people who have moved to Colorado from California did so thinking they could escape California's taxes and nuttiness. Imagine their surprise when they find the residents of Denver and Boulder are even whackier than San Francisco and Berkeley. Face it, people, the whole frickin' country is going down the tubes. California and Colorado might be a little bit ahead of the rest of you but Baraq is importing third world types as fast as he can to change the demographics of this country to be more inclined to the communism that he wants to implement. All of this is coming to a state near you and you can't blame California. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-10-26 13:04 |
| #6 ...picked that up when they tried the usual gun control game. Noted the sheriffs outside the usual urban bubbles said they weren't going to enforce it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-10-26 10:54 |
| #5 Sounds like they finally have enough transplanted Californians in their state... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2015-10-26 10:35 |
| #4 Obamacare was always intended to fail IMHO, leading to a national single-payer plan |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-10-26 10:18 |
| #3 It won't work, but taxpayers will be on the hook for politicans' mistakes. Increasingly, it can be blamed on the legal dope. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2015-10-26 09:39 |
| #2 punish people more for working (and damage the economy) in order to reward people who do not look after their own health! What could go wrong? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-10-26 09:30 |
| #1 The program, called ColoradoCare, comes with a steep price tag: $25 billion, which would be raised with a 10 percent payroll tax increase. At the same time, the plan would provide all residents with Medicare-style health care coverage and allow the state to dump Obamacare. Hit businesses with more taxes while jacking up the state budget with a program that will cost more than anyone planned. Sounds like a good way to turn into Detroit. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-10-26 09:29 |