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2016-04-18 Government

Beyond Obamacare: Colorado Considers Single-Payer Model

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Forty years ago when I lived in Denver, a popular bumper sticker at the time read, "DON'T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO!"

Clearly, the message wasn't heeded.

Posted by Dave D. 2016-04-18 07:26|| 2016-04-18 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Colo not the first State on this.

VT implemented such a plan in 2011 and abandoned it by the end of 2014 because it would have required a massive tax increase.

Posted by lord garth 2016-04-18 07:48|| 2016-04-18 07:48|| Front Page Top

#3 "DON'T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO!"

Well, when the state Trunk leadership tells its (now former) registered voters to 'FO', it only accelerates the transition.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-18 08:28|| 2016-04-18 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 It sounds good, until they realize the tax hike that goes along with it.

Plus, if you love the DMV or the VA, then government run healthcare is for you!

Posted by DarthVader 2016-04-18 08:54|| 2016-04-18 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 CO's health insurance COOP failed just before fall enrollment opened last year, so the state has a proud history of healthcare failure. The smart thing would be to tax the weed dispensaries only -- because it's the one business that can't leave the state.

Posted by regular joe 2016-04-18 11:25|| 2016-04-18 11:25|| Front Page Top

#6 doubling down on a broken straight

Posted by Angoling Prince of the Sith1435 2016-04-18 14:16|| 2016-04-18 14:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Voters to FO? No, get your shit together and get to the caucuses like I did, ya mindless Trumpkin. Doing it every year, helped pass rules in the off years, etc. Why the changes to caucuses came in: to prevent the Denver Country Club elites from parachuting in their anointed one and backing him with immense amounts of money. Caucuses require you to get local and meet the people and work the precincts. They also allow grass root candidates access to the ballot and a chance at winning. Primaries are a bueaty contest and depend on low information voters being bought by TV ads. Caucuses are the most grass roots representative democracy way of working things. You argue, you discuss, then you select someone from your neighborhood to represent you at the county meetings. County meeting do the same thing for State convention and Congressional Districts. Candidates are nominated there by the delegates we personally chose to represent us. None of this "superdelegate" crap the Dems have. Reps elected by the grass roots. Rules nominated and voted on by the grass roots and our representatives.

Now do you understand?

Posted by Harry Ulumble6172 2016-04-18 15:25|| 2016-04-18 15:25|| Front Page Top

#8 That's how you got a bartender for Governor, Harry?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-04-18 17:45|| 2016-04-18 17:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Primaries are a bueaty contest and depend on low information voters being bought by TV ads.

And as if you haven't been paying any attention for the past 16 years, that's how the general elections have gone. Those are the people you want to engage if you want to win in November. Your party activists and insiders don't carry enough votes then no matter how grass roots and 'democratic' you think it is.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-18 18:24|| 2016-04-18 18:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Lickenpooper was a barkeep? Did we just find Hillary!'s VP pick?

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-04-18 18:47|| 2016-04-18 18:47|| Front Page Top

#11 From what I've read it looks like the Trump campaign didn't bother getting people on the ground in Colorado in time, being more interested in sweeping New York.

As for the primaries being a beauty contest, I always vote for the person I think will be the best for the country of those who survived to get to Ohio. Inevitably, my first choice has already fallen by the wayside, and generally my next several choices, too. In other words, for me it's an ugly contest.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-04-18 19:48|| 2016-04-18 19:48|| Front Page Top

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