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Endorsements for Single-Payer Universal Health Care

Will you join us in calling upon the Colorado Legislature to move Colorado towards guaranteed, affordable choice, financed through a single-payer mechanism? This is the only truly progressive position there is in health care reform, because it's the only pragmatic position. Other groups to have endorsed this effort include:
  • Top Priorities for Colorado Democrats
    The health of our citizens is essential to the health of our nation. Our health care system should be focused proactively on health promotion, preventative medicine, public health, and disease prevention, as well as primary care. We support implementation of a quality universal single-payer health care system, independent of employment." 

    Full Colorado Democratic Party Platform
  • US Mayors Conference 2008 - PNHP Press Release
    " . . . the United States Conference of Mayors expresses its support for The United States National Health Insurance Act (H.R. 676), and calls upon federal legislators to work towards its immediate enactment"
     
  • National Organization For Women
    "NOW Action Vice President Olga Vives, speaking at a recent Capitol Hill briefing sponsored by OWL: Older Women's League, renewed NOW's call for a system of universal health care coverage much like an expanded and improved Medicare program—available to all."

  • American College of Physicians
    "The American College of Physicians has endorsed the concept of a single-payer health care system for the first time."

Other Single-Payer Supporters

  • Physicians for a National Health Plan

    "Specifically, we believe that a single-payer system (where the government finances health care, but keeps the delivery of health care to mostly private control) is the only solution to solving the United States' many health care problems."

  • American Medical Student Association
     

  • Mike Miles, 2004 Colorado Senate candidate

    "A universal, single-payer system will also help the economy. Employers, who currently pick up around 75 percent of health care costs for their employees, would only pay a small fee for every employee. The average family would see their insurance premiums cut nearly in half, providing more spending money every month."

  • Governor Mario Cuomo, Hardball - CNBC September 5, 2003

    "You know, one of the most impressive candidates last night (9/4/03 DNC Candidate Forum) was Braun, Carol Moseley-Braun. She was intelligent. She was succinct. She was right about single payer in terms of how to express the healthcare situation as simply as you can and the most effectively. She was very, very strong."

  • Moseley-Braun, NewsHour, PBS June 9, 2003

  • "We pay more as a percentage of our Gross Domestic Product for health care than any other country. And Americans are no sicker than Japanese or Germans or French or Canadians, for that matter. The difference is that we don't pay for our health care in a very sensible way. So my view is that we have tinkered with Medicare on the one hand, Medicaid on the other, CHIPs and all the various programs-- all of these efforts to try to fix the employment-based system that we have. I think it's time to just say if we're going to have universal coverage, then we need to figure out a way to pay for it in a comprehensive way. And to my view, after all these years of looking at it, I've come to conclude that a single payer system is the way to go.?

  • Dennis Kucinich
    Universal Health Care with a Single Payer Plan

  • BowenDirectory.com
    Directory of Bowen Therapy Technique practitioners, instructors and training organizations

  • National Association of Social Workers

  • National Association of Social Workers, Colorado Chapter  A professional association that advocates for the promotion, development and protection of its members, the profession of social work and social work values.

  • National Health Care for the Homeless Council  Because Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege

  • Pulse Of America - Patient Safety

Health Care for All Colorado's endorsement forms:

County Commission Resolution
Resolution Endorsing Colorado Health Services Program Single-Payer Insurance Reform & The National Health Insurance Act - HR676

Business Endorsement Form

Elected Official Endorsement Form

Faith Community Endorsement Form

Government Endorsement Form

Labor Endorsement Form

Organization Endorsement Form

Physician and Other Health Care Professionals Endorsement Form