{"id":1455,"date":"2015-12-21T11:36:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T16:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2015-12-21T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T16:36:38","slug":"single-payer-health-care-on-colorado-ballot-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Single-Payer Health Care On Colorado Ballot In 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; John Daley, Colorado Public Radio, via Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>On a brisk morning in Denver recently, an ambulance pulled up in front of a downtown office tower. \u201cI think the patient is going to make it,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/senatorireneaguilar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Irene Aguilar<\/a> said as a team rolled out the gurney.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t a medical emergency, but rather a bit of political theater. The gurney held several big boxes of signed petitions to be delivered to the Colorado secretary of state\u2019s office. The group <a href=\"http:\/\/coloradocareyes.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">ColoradoCareYES<\/a> gathered enough signatures \u2014 more than 100,000 \u2014 to put a single-payer health system on the ballot next fall. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/single-payer-health-care-on-colorado-ballot-in-2016\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=24769961&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_1qukG_ELcmbBQd11XQcWJVrL6gXy7yuQ99O6UZFohykkcLlumcZ_hvkMz5-cVfVCxqK4SEP5yIPPc742ZUjprDXRAoQ&amp;_hsmi=24769961\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; John Daley, Colorado Public Radio, via Kaiser Health News) On a brisk morning in Denver recently, an ambulance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}