October 14, 2016 06:18 PM UTC

Bernie Sanders coming to Colorado to support Amendment 69 / Single Payer

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• by: wade norris

From the Daily Camera:

The ColoradoCareYES campaign announced today that Bernie Sanders will speak at the University of Colorado on Monday in support of Amendment 69, his second visit to the campus in two years.

Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, will appear at CU’s Farrand Field at 5 p.m Monday for a “YES on 69” rally, according to a news release from the ColoradoCareYES campaign.

Amendment 69 would establish a political subdivision of the state called “ColoradoCare.” The measure was designed to establish a statewide program to provide universal health care coverage and finance health care services for Colorado residents.

“There is an important ballot initiative in Colorado which calls for a ‘Medicare-for-all’ health care system,” Sanders said in a statement. “It is absurd, it is beyond belief, that here in America we remain the only major country on Earth not to guarantee health care to all people. If that proposal can win in Colorado, I believe that idea will spread around the country.”

ColoradoCareYes said the event would be free and open to the public, and spectators will be allowed in starting at 4 p.m. The field holds about 10,000 people but the organization anticipates about 2,000 people will show up for the rally.

This is important, because Bernie won Colorado overwhelmingly in the Caucus, and he was the Senator who wrote the language into the Affordable Care Act to have a provision for States to pass Single Payer individually. This is very important for our State and Country, especially with reports of large insurance companies like AETNA pulling out of the ACA, hamstringing the ability of the Affordable Care Act to work.

As a candidate for State House, I support Amendment 69 as a sensible way to provide Single Payer, since we are one of the few major Countries that do not provide Universal Healthcare.
Join the fight for Amendment 69.