One state’s unlikely Obamacare replacement plan: Single-payer

[KamaAina]

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/obamacare-colorado-single-payer-health-care-215780

One of the most detailed plans to replace Obamacare this year comes not from a Republican critic, but from a group in swing-state Colorado that is proposing to scrap it for a single-payer model long sought by liberals.

Supporters, who won approval this week for a 2016 ballot measure after securing nearly 110,000 signatures deemed valid, will sell the overhaul as an Obamacare replacement plan designed in Colorado, instead of in Washington.

“We’re a purple state, and this is a purple plan,” said T.R. Reid, a former Washington Post reporter who is working with ColoradoCareYES, the group that spearheaded the ballot initiative campaign. “There’s broad appeal here.”...

The ballot initiative could attract a national audience and boost Colorado voter turnout on both sides — Democrats unhappy about the compromises made to pass Obamacare, as well as conservatives fearful that Obamacare is a stepping stone to a government-run single-payer system.

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. You know that was written into Obamacares,right?

[pnwmom]

2. It's not a "replacement plan." It's one of the options under Obamacare.

The bill was written to give states the money they were entitled to under the ACA, to be used in a single-payer plan.

[Hoyt]

3. I would love to see it work, but I fear it will be beaten badly.

Hope I'm wrong.

[krawhitham]

6. I hope not, but they will frame it as a straight 10% payroll tax and I fear it will get crushed

It really costs workers 3.33% of their check

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29093230/colorado-vote-single-payer-state-health-care-system

To pay for state coverage, employers would pay 6.67 percent in payroll taxes and employees would kick in 3.33 percent, for a total of 10 percent of the payroll. Self-employed people would pay 10 percent of their net income. People who qualify for existing federal health programs could continue to receive the same benefits.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29093230/colorado-vote-single-payer-state-health-care-system


Just like the Houston scare tactics it does not matter what the Bill does, it only matters what the opposition can make people believe the Bill does

[SickOfTheOnePct]

7. I'll be interested to see how they handle

current and retired federal employees and active duty and retired military.

[El Supremo]

4. The state that gave us Mike Coffman and Cory Gardner?

This would have to be a really big sales job.

It barely won in a recent poll: http://www.denverpost.com/opinionpolls

[onecaliberal]

5. Sorry, but that is a DEEP DARK BLUE plan....

by golly it's socialism..... This is what needs to happen in all 50 states.