2018 CO Governor's race: on Health Care
Jared Polis:
Improve ObamaCare; work toward universal single-payer system
Q: Support or Repeal ACA, aka ObamaCare? Accept ACA's Medicaid expansion to subsidize low-income participants? Jared Polis (D): Keep ACA and improve it. Work toward universal single-payer system. Believes Medicaid expansion in
Colorado has been an enormous success.
Walker Stapleton (R): Repeal ACA & end Colorado's ObamaCare exchange. Shrinking Medicaid expansion would be among main changes he'd champion.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Colorado Governor race
Oct 9, 2018
Walker Stapleton:
End Colorado's ObamaCare exchange; undo Medicaid expansion
Q: Support or Repeal ACA, aka ObamaCare? Accept ACA's Medicaid expansion to subsidize low-income participants? Jared Polis (D): Keep ACA and improve it. Work toward universal single-payer system. Believes Medicaid expansion in
Colorado has been an enormous success.
Walker Stapleton (R): Repeal ACA & end Colorado's ObamaCare exchange. Shrinking Medicaid expansion would be among main changes he'd champion.
Source: 2018 CampusElect.org Issue Guide on Colorado Governor race
Oct 9, 2018
Jared Polis:
AdWatch: Supports Medicare for All
CLAIM: "And radical ideas like single-payer health care. That's why they call it RadiCalifornia. Jared Polis wants the same thing."VERDICT: This is TRUE. Polis is supportive of single-payer health care. Calling it radical is opinion.
The ad refers
to a bill introduced in January 2017, H.R. 676, "Medicare for All." It essentially creates a free health care system for all U.S. citizens. Polis signed on as a cosponsor of the bill in April 2017. No Republicans have put their name on this legislation.
Source: 9News.com KUSA AdWatch on 2018 Colorado gubernatorial race
Aug 13, 2018
Greg Lopez:
VA is proof against government health-care system
Government has never been able to, and never will be able to, provide any type of true health-care system that will achieve what everyone wants to achieve, and we have a perfect example of that. The Veterans Administration is
supposed to provide medical services and treatment at no cost to our veterans, and yet we see the challenges and the struggles the VA has. And they have full access to federal dollars to provide that service. It's just not working.
Source: Westword.com blog on 2018 Colorado governor race
May 23, 2018
Walker Stapleton:
Medicaid block grants for community health care centers
Q: If the feds switched to Medicaid block grants, here's how he'd spend them:A: "A managed Medicaid model means the following:˙It means a proliferation of community health care centers. I've got a little clinic across the street. When my kids get
sick˙I take my kids across the street to an RN, and I pay $10 to $15 for a copay. The pharmacy is right there. If I took them to their pediatrician, I'd be paying 4 times as much and the insurance company would be billing me 6 or 7 times as much.
Source: CPR.org on 2018 Colorado gubernatorial race
May 21, 2018
George Brauchler:
Repeal Obamacare; local control of Medicaid
Coloradans deserve access to patient-centered healthcare and affordable premiums. ObamaCare must be repealed to make this happen.
Since becoming the law of the land, ObamaCare has driven more and more Coloradans onto our Medicaid rolls.
At the same time, it has stifled the state's ability to be innovative and has driven costs up at the expense of other state funding priorities, like education and transportation.
We need greater flexibility that gets Washington out of the way and allows our state leaders to craft a Colorado-specific Medicaid plan that is best for Colorado's unique needs.
Source: 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial campaign website george2018.com
Jul 12, 2017
Victor Mitchell:
Insurance is not necessary for primary care
We can get Medicaid spending under control Medicaid has increased by more than 40% since the passage of the unaffordable care act. We're not doing anything to bend the cost of access to affordable care.
We should come up with ideas and solutions that are different, that don't always involve insurance. Why do we even need insurance for primary care? I plan to repeal the exchange here in Colorado and replace it with a patient centered health care plan.
Source: 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial campaign website vic4gov.com
Jul 2, 2017
Victor Mitchell:
ObamaCare doesn't work for 50% of people today
We hear about the handful of people that are going to lose their insurance under the "Un-Affordable Care Act," but don't talk about the more than 50% of people today, that have insurance, that can't access it like Mark who works for me.
He has diabetes. It costs him more than $15,000 a year today to access any service provider between what he has to pay for his co payments his deductibles and his premiums."
Source: 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial campaign website vic4gov.com
Jul 2, 2017
Victor Mitchell:
ObamaCare is not a solution; we need patient-centered care
Mitchell called the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, which provided insurance to thousands of Coloradans, a boondoggle. He would favor block grants to start nurse-practitioner staffed clinics for primary care. "That begs the question of why
do you even need insurance for primary care?" he said. "You should be able to go and get high-quality, patient-centered care without insurance, but we're not even thinking about these types of things."
Source: ColoradoPolitics.com on 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial race
Jun 13, 2017
Doug Robinson:
Wants congress and Trump to repeal ObamaCare
Robinson said he voted for Donald Trump and applauded his cabinet appointments, even as he said he thinks the president "can do a better job."
He expressed disappointment that the Republican-led Congress failed to pass a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Source: Denver Post on 2018 Colorado gubernatorial race
Apr 25, 2017
George Brauchler:
Medicaid block grants instead of ObamaCare expansion
Brauchler supports the Trump administration's call to change the federal Medicaid insurance program to a block grant -- setting limits on the annual expenditure.
He said Colorado's decision to expand Medicaid coverage under the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act has committed the state to open-ended expense. "Those costs are ultimately unsustainable," he said.
Source: Pueblo Chieftain on 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial race
Apr 11, 2017
George Brauchler:
Increase Medicaid co-pays to change behavior
A $2 copay that gets billed out as a $54 office visit is too little to impact behavior. People who have a runny nose are running off to the doctor, because the cost to them is nothing. Should we have the ability to go to them and say, "We want you to
have the ability to have more skin in the game. We want to increase your copay as a means of not only helping us save dollars for those who truly need it, but also to change behavior, so you don't treat this in a way that's more gratuitously used."
Source: Westword.com on 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial race
Apr 7, 2017
George Brauchler:
Charge co-pays to low-income residents on Medicaid
When it comes to finding money to invest in schools, Brauchler suggested rising health care costs are crowding out other priorities.
He expressed interest to charging co-pays to low-income residents on Medicaid, as well as looking at reducing eligibility limits, which could leave some uninsured.
Source: Denver Post on 2018 Colorado gubernatorial race
Apr 5, 2017
Victor Mitchell:
Promote patient-centered health care
His top issues include lowering the cost of college, promoting patient-centered health care and helping "people earn more money."
A former House GOP colleague called Mitchell "an independent thinker" who "didn't let party get in the way of getting some things done."
Source: Denver Post on 2018 Colorado Gubernatorial race
Feb 13, 2017
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