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Health Care for All Colorado
Website: http://www.healthcareforallcolorado.org/
E-mail: info@healthcareforallColorado.org
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C. Rocky White
719.589.3000
whtfarms@fone.net
Dr. White was raised in Nebraska, attended Rhema Bible College in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and received his Bachelor’s from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1987. He completed his Medical Doctorate and residency training at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. White, an internal medicine specialist, resides and practices in Alamosa, Colorado, where he also serves as the Medical Director for Cardio-Pulmonary Services at the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center. He is currently the president of the San Luis Valley Medical Society. He is a nationally known speaker and a strong proponent for major healthcare reform and has been active at the local, state, and national levels to effect change.
Elinor Christiansen | 303.756.4159 | 7doc@gmail.com
Dr. Christiansen is the past President of the American Medical Women’s Association. In 1955 she earned her MD from Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (now known as MCP-HU). Her diverse medical career has involved a private practice in general practice in Ohio, maternal and child health in the inner city clinics of Denver, CO and School Health for Denver Public Schools, college health at Colorado Women’s College for 2 years followed by 18 years at University of Denver Student Health Service where she was a staff physician and also medical director the last 9 years. She was also part of the clinical faculty in Family Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine and Medical Director and staff physician at Columbine Family Health Center.
Local Unions Endorsing HR676
- Boulder Area Labor Council
- District Council 1, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, IUPAT
August 26, 2008
Doctor’s Orders: Health Coverage for Everyone
By Daina Saib | YES! Magazine
You wouldn’t know it from the candidates’ debates or reports on the major television networks, but a majority of Americans favor a government-run health insurance system similar to Canada’s. Those lining up to support single-payer health care include medical professionals, business people, and many Republicans. Dr. Rocky White has been all of those things.
January 9, 2008
Single-payer system is best option
By Tom Linnell, EdD | The Coloradoan
I am starting to see why all of us - liberals, conservatives and independents - might really like single-payer health insurance.
January 3, 2008
Evaluation of Colorado Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform Final Recommendations
by Michele Swenson | Board Member, Health Care for All Colorado
Five proposals were selected to be evaluated by the Lewin Group, including an additional proposal written by a subcommittee of the Commission. The Colorado Health Services Single Payer Proposal is the only reform proposal that demonstrated any savings for the state — $1.4 billion — and also the only one capable of providing comprehensive health care for all. The Colorado Commission chose to base most of its recommendations on its own (5th) Proposal.
November 8, 2007
Is covering the state’s uninsured worth $1.1 billion?
Steve Pomerance | The Daily Camera
The single-payer approach provides savings from eliminating unnecessary costs that will help to cover the increased level of basic care that currently is simply not provided, so the final societal bill may not increase dramatically, and may even be reduced.
October 30, 2007
Health care money pits
Janet K. Seeley, M.D., Ph.D | The Coloradoan
The single-payer proposal for Colorado health care reform solves the problem of multiple risk pools and reduces administrative costs by setting up a publicly financed trust fund. Yes, public financing means state health care taxes, but they are more than offset by the savings in current state and federal taxes for public programs, insurance premiums, high copays, deductibles and many out-of-pocket health expenses. For most of us, that would be less expensive than what we spend today.
October 15, 2007
Support for single-payer system
BY KEVIN DUGGAN | The Coloradoan
“Private, for-profit health insurance served its purpose in the early part of the 20th century, but it is obsolete for the 21st century,” said Dr. Kathy Waller, of Fort Collins.
October 5, 2007
Audience at health care forum backs single-payer proposal
By David Montero | Rocky Mountain News
There may be five proposals being considered to reform health care in Colorado, but only one seemed to satisfy most of the 150 gathered at the Millennium Hotel on Thursday night. That proposal was the so- called single-payer system.
October 1, 2007
Single-payer health plan best for taxpayers
By Kathy Waller | The Coloradoan
Let’s repeat that for emphasis. The single-payer plan will provide coverage for everyone and save more than a billion dollars for Colorado taxpayers. The other plans cost millions of dollars and still leave hundreds of thousands of people uninsured.
September 27, 2007
About single-payer insurance
by Michele Swenson | Colorado Springs Independent
The Colorado Health Services single-payer proposal is the only one of four recently evaluated by the Lewin Group (asked by the state to develop and analyze health-care expansion proposals) projected to save substantial money and insure everyone. Single-payer saves money by eliminating wasteful administrative costs of multiple insurers, and permitting negotiation of bulk rates for pharmaceutical and durable medical goods. Estimated overall net savings is $1.4 billion.
May 7, 2007
Prescription for health care
By Kristen Hannum | Rocky Mountain News
Dr. Rocky White of Alamosa was seeing a growing number of patients who were without adequate insurance. The conservative rancher and physician knew many people weren’t coming in at all for the preventive care that would keep them healthy. After studying the problem, White decided “Everybody in, nobody out,” was the answer to the U.S. health-care crisis. Universal health care, via single-payer financing, brings quality care for far less money per capita in other industrialized countries. Why not here?