Colorado ballot inititiative to block parts of Obama Care
December 31st, 2009 | by Brian Schwartz |Update: Become a fan of this cause on on the Defend Colorado from ObamaCare Facebook page.
From the Denver Post:
Coloradans will likely be asked in November to blunt the impact of federal health-insurance reform with a state constitutional amendment that would attempt to undo some of what Congress is trying to pass.
Jon Caldara of the Independence Institute said Tuesday that he is still working on the language for his proposal, which would then need signatures from 76,047 voters to make the ballot. But he intends to find out in the fall whether voters want to stop the federal government from dictating insurance requirements to Coloradans.
At the same time, a freshman state lawmaker says she’ll push her legislative colleagues to opt the state out of the congressional health care reforms
Caldara’s proposal aims to bar the state from requiring its citizens to purchase health insurance, ensure Coloradans can pay out-of-pocket for health care expenses and allow them to purchase plans from other states.
He hopes to make a draft of the initiative public next month.
Freshman state Rep. Cindy Acree, an Aurora Republican who wants Colorado to opt out of the federal plan, argues the state can’t afford the proposal and that the federal government is usurping states’ rights.
“Right now (there are states that) are in fiscal distress and cannot support or sustain the federal legislation as written,” Acree said. “And there are civil liberties here that are being infringed upon.”
Read the whole article: Efforts already underway in Colorado to blunt federal health care reforms. (Note that these Democrats do not want “reform,” but entrenchment of bad policies.)
Note: This blog, PatientPowerNow, is sponsored by the Independence Institute.
tags: Cindy Acree, Colorado health care, Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative, mandatory insurance, Obama Care, patient-as-customer
