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Amendment 63 Health Care Initiative Makes it On the Ballot in CO

by | 8:32 pm, August 26, 2010 | 3 Comments

Amendment 63, which targets the mandate provisions of ObamaCare, will be on the ballot in November. Mike Krause describes what Amendment 63 will do if passed.

If approved by voters in November, Amendment 63 will amend Colorado’s Constitution in two meaningful ways. First, the State of Colorado would be prohibited from forcing its citizens to purchase a public or private health insurance product, either on its own, or on behalf of the federal government. Secondly, it would constitutionally protect fee-for-service health care by ensuring Coloradans the right to choose to pay out of pocket for health care services and products.

A Denver Post blog continues to push the fallacy that the state amendment is meaningless because it's superseded by Federal law. That's true when the Federal law is enacting measures in the Constitution but not otherwise. In fact, nullification has been successfully used before.

This would be great for Colorado if it passes.

Category: Colorado Politics, Health Reform, Politics, PPC
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Comments

  1.   robert southwell
      August 29th, 2010 @ 9:22 am

    I’ve asked this before with no answer, but, optimist that I am, I remain hopeful.

    Assuming this measure is approved, how is depriving 800,000 Coloradans of health care coverage “great?” Don’t like Obamacare? OK, but what’s YOUR solution?

  2.   T.L. James
      August 29th, 2010 @ 4:40 pm

    False premise. Approving the measure will not deprive 800,000 Coloradans of health care, which is the conflation you’re attempting to sell with your question.

    But I’ll offer one possible solution, since you ask: health savings accounts used together with catastrophic coverage insurance. Will it solve every single conceivable hypothetical situation? No, of course not. Will it address the typical healthcare needs of most Coloradans? Yes. And if this is only one among many options on a free market in medical services, those with special needs will have other options available to them to suit their circumstances, with competition and innovation keeping prices sane.

  3.   unknown
      September 7th, 2010 @ 5:39 pm

    It definately does not involve removing someone’s liberty.

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