Colorado Amendment 63, the commerce clause, & the Constitution

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

In his article in support of Colorado Amendment 63 (health care choice), Wayne Laugesen writes: Congress has no authority to require individuals to buy private insurance, which is the basis of the lawsuit filed by states. It has no such authority because the Constitution does not grant it, not ...

Colorado Amendment 63, risk pools, & health care costs

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

A July 30 statement from a group calling itself "Colorado Deserves Better" said that Colorado Amendment 63 (Health Care Choice) "would isolate Colorado from health care costs savings by shrinking the risk pool in Colorado."  This is unlikely, and even so, it's unethical. Even if larger risk ...

Colorado Amendment 63: Health Care Choice

Monday, August 16th, 2010



Amendment 63

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Amendment 63 : health care choice not a "PR stunt" Is the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative a "public relations stunt," as a political science professor says? No, it's not.  Should a lawsuit against the mandatory insurance provision of HR 3590 succeed, the Feds will pressure states into enforcing ...

Explaining Colorado Amendment 63: Right to Health Care Choice

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Barring unforeseen obstacles, The Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative (Colorado Amendment 63) will be among the ballot measures Colorado voters can vote on in this November's election -  in addition to others in Colorado politics. Some people are bound to misunderstand what the amendment would do, and not ...

DeGette misrepresents Colorado health care choice initiative

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

In the 9 News article reporting that 130,000 signatures for the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative (Colorado Amendment 63) were delivered to the Secretary of State's office, Rep. Diana DeGette has an strange interpretation of the Initiative's content: It's hard to imagine that there are too many Colorado seniors ...

Colorado Amendment 63: Right to Health Care Choice

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Full text of the Colorado Amendment 63: Right to Health Care Choice Initiative. Source: Colorado General Assembly. Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Colorado Article II of the Constitution of the State of Colorado is amended by the addition of a new section to read: Section 32. Right to health ...

Right to Health Care Choice Initiative: what will it do?

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

In a recent iVoices podcast Jon Caldara discusses an important issue in Colorado politics this year, the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative (Colorado Amendment 63): We hear the questions everyday from folks who want to help us collect signatures or who support what we’re doing: what exactly ...

Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative - pay to collect signatures

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

From Jon Caldara: As I hope you know, we have been working to bring to this Fall’s Colorado ballot a citizens’ amendment, the Right to Health Care Choice. Well, we just cleared a massive hurdle.  A federal court judge has placed an emergency injunction on a new ...

The “choice” to prohibit other people’s choices

Monday, April 19th, 2010

March a number of people and organizations* filed a Motion for Rehearing [pdf] in regards to the Colorado Right Health Care Choice Initiative.  The Motion contains a number of arguments that claiming that the Title Board lacks jurisdiction over the measure's contents, which I suppose would mean the its contents ...