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Health Care Reform Survey

For the purposes of this candidate survey, the following definitions apply:

Single-payer – a financing system in which the providers are in business for themselves, patients can choose their providers, and premiums are collected through taxes.

Underinsured – Typically defined as insured in a household that spent 10% or more of income on medical care (excluding premiums), or 5% or more if household income is under the 200% poverty threshold. These are people who take extra jobs, incur debt and bankruptcy, deplete retirement savings or cut back on food and heat.

At risk-- Anyone currently healthy with high deductibles, coinsurance or co-pays; anyone with pre-existing conditions if Obamacare is rescinded; anyone under 65 who might lose employer-sponsored insurance; and anyone who would pay for the health care of loved ones.

I. What would you, personally, do during your term in office about the problem of Coloradans who are unable to access health care because of cost? Please mark all that apply. *

In 2017, one in five Coloradans either had no health insurance or were underinsured; 19% of Coloradans skipped care due to cost; and in 2018 premiums on the individual market rose an average of 27%.

1. Support state efforts to create a Colorado version of Medicare-for-all or single-payer system

2. Participate in planning efforts, e.g., commission an economic analysis of various systemic possibilities; develop model legislation; create coalitions of stakeholders

3. Nothing is currently anticipated

Other:

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Please list any other actions you plan to take during your term.

II. To address the business concerns about health care costs (paying for premiums, managing administration, negotiating benefits with employees) which of the following have you done? Please mark all that apply. *

Even without providing for everyone, the U.S. spends more per person on health care than any of the industrialized countries with universal health care. The U.S. spends 17.8% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) on health care. Colorado businesses finance a large portion of this cost as 49% of Coloradans have employer-sponsored insurance. A “free market system” has not contained costs.

1. Discussed health care issues with business owners and executives in your district

2. Considered the cost savings of replacing the “middle-man” insurance system with the simplicity of the Medicare tax

3. Considered a specific plan to decouple health insurance from business

Other:

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Please explain "other" or provide additional comments.

III. How will you address the disparities described below? *

During 2017, 6.4% of all Coloradans were uninsured. Of these 34% were Hispanic although they are just 21% of the population. Of 19-29 year-olds, 12.3% were uninsured. 14.4% of Coloradans were covered by Medicare. Only 0.2% of Coloradans age 65 and older are uninsured. With a universal, a Medicare-for-all type or a single-payer system, ~0.0% would be uninsured, without inequities by ethnicity, age or other factors.

1. Access to health care is a privilege, not a governmental responsibility

2. A single-payer or Medicare-for-all type system is the way to reduce overall costs and inequities

3. Legislation is needed to regulate insurance in order to ensure affordable coverage for everyone

4. Work needs to continue with developing incremental changes to reduce inequities

Other:

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Please provide other ideas or comments.

IV. Which of these do you actively support, e.g., work on 50+hours per year, or publicly endorse, promote during public appearances, on your Facebook page, website and on your printed materials? Please mark all that apply. *

1. Colorado version of single-payer or Medicare-for-all, yet to be developed

2. National Improved Medicare-for-All bills S-1804 or HR-676

3. Possible versions of public options, e.g. Medicare X, Medicaid or Medicare buy-ins

4. Transitional legislation setting the stage for single-payer within the next 10 years

Other:

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Please describe other options you support.

V. Please take this opportunity to present ideas, to make comments, to explain any opinions you may have expressed in the past which have changed, or to provide informative details. If you accept that not everyone will have health care, how will you make policy decisions about who doesn’t get covered?

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