Events
Grow the grassroots for IM4A!
6:30 p.m. the last Tuesday of each month.
CO4UHC Monthly Grassroots Call
Join the Colorado grassroots movement to win Improved Medicare for All, Colorado universal health!
On these monthly calls, activists get connected with others working on universal health care in Colorado, give updates on their recent actions, ask questions, volunteer, and team up to make a difference.
Past Events
Healing US documentary film
5 p.m. Tuesday, March 19
Hosted by League of Women Voters Denver
The documentary Healing US (2023), narrated by Susan Sarandon, highlights our nation’s health care crisis and pleads with the American people to take action for our own well-being.
Diane Dunn from Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care will respond to questions after the film. The briefing will be on Zoom and the link and more info is available here. You do not need to be League members to participate. Please notice the time, earlier than usual at 5 p.m. so that there is time for questions after 75-minute film.
Could universal health work in CO? A 2024 bill will investigate
6:30 p.m. Jan. 22
Info & Action Session
Get to know the bill to analyze a single nonprofit health care payment system for Colorado that CO Rep. Karen McCormick will introduce this month. She and Andrea Wilkins of Be the Agenda will give an overview of the bill: Analysis of Universal Health Care Payment System. CO4UHC Legislative Action Coordinator Virginia Gebhart will give a training on Navigating the CO Assembly Website to prep folks to testify at the Colorado Legislature in person or remotely. Then, Virginia’s co-leader Jim Potter, Board Chair Bill Semple, and others will open it up to answer your questions.
Let’s celebrate Jeri (and Bernie’s) Birthday!
A fundraiser for Colorado for Universal Health Care (CO4UHC)
6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, 2023 in Greeley
RSVP: Address provided with RSVP
What do Colorado attorney Jeri Shepherd and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders have in common? A birthday & a desire to see everyone benefit from improved Medicare for All!
Let’s help Jeri celebrate her 65th birthday (and Bernie’s Birthday) from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 8 in Greeley, a fundraiser for Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care (CO4UHC). Your support fuels our work for a bright day with health care for all in both Colorado and the US.
Healing US Colorado film premier
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
4255 W. Colfax Ave., Denver, CO 80204
America, we’re sick, dying, and in need of healing
The documentary Healing US (2023) (the Film), narrated by Susan Sarandon, highlights our nation’s health care crisis and pleads with the American people to take action for our own well-being.
Meet the Director Kenny Ballentine at the Denver Premier. Bestselling author and health care expert T.R. Reid will emcee and lead a discussion after the film. Watch the Trailer.
Colorado Health: From Chaos to Care
6:30 pm Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Online on Zoom
Public health, primary care, and community health unite! Medical Professionals for Universal Health Care invite you to explore how primary care, public health, and community health can fit together and fix health care. Speakers include:
- Bernie Birnbaum, MD Family Medicine, Ft. Collins, former President, Larimer County Board of Health
- Mark Wallace, MD, MPH, Family Medicine, Chief Clinical Officer for Sunrise Community Health, Weld County; Former Exec. Dir. Weld County Dept. of Public Health and Environment.
- Mitzi Moran, Chief Executive Officer at Sunrise Community Health in Greeley, Chair of the Health Care Cost Savings Act #1176 Task Force
Learn more about our speakers here.
American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System
7 pm Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema—Sloans Lake
4255 W Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80204 Google Map & Directions
Denver movie premier with special guest Wendell Potter
Join the Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care and its partners for this exciting Denver movie premier. American Hospitals takes a deep dive into the out-of-control cost of hospitals and their transformation into a money-driven big business. How can we incentivize hospitals to provide the highest quality care with the lowest affordable cost to the community? Health insurance exec turned truth teller Wendell Potter joins us in person for the event.
Your money or your life: private equity groups invade health care
Private equity groups have been buying up physician’s practices, nursing homes, hospices, and now own 25 percent of US hospitals. When these firms invade health care, patients suffer and sometimes die as a result of cutting staffing and cutting care to enhance profits for the investors.
Join the Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care’s Patricia Rice for a lively discussion with distinguished professor and author Laura Katz Olson, whose book Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms US Health care sheds light on the motives and malevolent maneuvers of these health care space.
Workshop: Get your local elected body to endorse improved Medicare for All!
Join Fort Collins, Denver, the Town of Jamestown, Colorado and more than 100 U.S. cities in the action.
Statewide on Zoom
The goal of this workshop is to give health care providers, activists, and legislators the tools they need to pass Proclamations in your communities for Improved Medicare for All. These actions show our Colorado legislators and US Congresspeople that we want universal health care! Colorado legislation is in the works to get us there.
We’ll hear from volunteers who did the work in Denver and Fort Collins. They’ll respond to your questions and provide the tools you need to get a proclamation passed in your community.
Mend Our Broken US Health Care System!
Noon, Saturday July 30, 2022
Online: Shattered—The Moral Crisis in American Health Care
11 a.m. MST Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022
Online: Zoom
Moral injury: knowing what needs to be done and being powerless to do it.
Health care providers have been dealing moral injury for years: doctors daily asked to violate their Hippocratic oath in order to appease corporate profiteers; nurses being asked to care for too many patients; physical therapists being shut out of patient care by insurance networks; mental health therapists unable to provide patient care due to the labyrinth of billing systems; patients refused care because they can’t afford it or aren’t profitable enough.
The U.S. broken health care system puts the profit of the few over the health care needs of the many. COVID has amplified an existing problem.
Come to our meeting and share your experiences, perspectives, and your questions. Join us for personal healing, resources, strategies and positive change.
Imagine! Health Care that Cares for You, Colorado
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 on Zoom & Facebook
Featuring State Rep. Emily Sirota, health providers, and Coloradans like you!
Learn how you can help get the word out about an important new study showing that we could cover everyone in Colorado with quality health care and pay providers well while while spending hundreds of $millions to $billions less than we spend now.
The bipartisan Health Care Cost Savings Act Task Force commissioned the Colorado School of Public Health to do the analysis comparing Colorado’s current health care system with universal health via many payers and with a single payer nonprofit universal health care system for Colorado. The nonprofit single payer health care system beat out the others for both coverage and cost: Colorado would save up to $billions over what we now spend while covering every single Colorado man, woman, and child. We can spend less, cover everyone, increase employment, and have better health care for all in Colorado. Join us to learn more and take action to make universal health care a reality in our state.
Imagine! Health Care that Cares for You
Featuring Michael Lighty, US Rep. Joe Neguse, and You!
The Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care and 19 wonderful co-host partners hosted this kick-off Imagine event on June 24, 2021. Check out this blog of what attendees said universal health would mean to them.
Push to Pass Health Care Emergency Care Act
Colorado Kick Off—Nov. 30, 2020
Cover everyone with health care during the pandemic
Colorado groups that support single payer universal health care are teaming up to demand the affordable health care that we need.
Join us for the kick off campaign to get everyone the health care they need now.
The Health Care Emergency Guarantee Act (HCEGA) will cover all out-of-pocket expenses for people with insurance and all health care costs for those with no coverage, for the duration of the pandemic.
Events
Healing Us documentary film
5 p.m. Tuesday, March 19
Hosted by League of Women Voters Denver. https://lwvd.clubexpress.com/
Zoom
Grow the grassroots monthly calls
6:30 p.m. the last Tuesday of each month
Zoom
Past Events
Could a Universal Health Care plan work in Colorado?
A 2024 bill will investigate. Join our Info & Action Session
When: 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 22 on Zoom
Get to know the bill to analyze a single nonprofit health care payment system for Colorado that CO Rep. Karen McCormick will introduce this month. She and Andrea Wilkins of Be the Agenda will give an overview of the bill: Analysis of Universal Health Care Payment System. Then we’ll open it up to answer your questions. CO4UHC Legislative Action Coordinator Virginia Gebhart will give a training on Navigating the CO Assembly Website to prep folks to testify at the Colorado Legislature in person or remotely.
Cost: Free; register to save your spot!
Happy Birthday Fundraiser in Greeley
for Jeri and Bernie!
Colorado Health: From Chaos to Care
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 on Zoom and Facebook live
Public health, primary care, and community health unite!
Medical Professionals for Universal Health Care invite you to explore how primary care, public health, and community health can fit together and fix health care.
Speakers include:
- Bernie Birnbaum, MD Family Medicine, Ft. Collins, former President, Larimer County Board of Health
- Mark Wallace, MD, MPH, Family Medicine, Chief Clinical Officer for Sunrise Community Health, Weld County; Former Exec. Dir. Weld County Dept. of Public Health and Environment.
- Mitzi Moran, Chief Executive Officer at Sunrise Community Health in Greeley,Chair of the Health Care Cost Savings Act #1176 Task Force.
Your money or your life: private equity groups invade health care
The Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care’s Patrica Rice hosts distinguished politcal science professor and author Laura Katz Olson, who’s book “Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms US Health Care” explores the motivations and maneuvers of these health care space invaders.
1 p.m. Thursday Jan. 26, 2023 on Zoom and Facebook live
Workshop: Get your elected body to endorse Improved Medicare for All!
Join Fort Collins, Denver, the Town of Jamestown Colorado, and more than 100 US cities taking action.
Noon Nov. 19, 2022 on Zoom
Mend Our Broken US Health Care System!
Noon Saturday, July 30, 2022
Online on Zoom
Health Care: Be Bolder Before we Keel Over
Vigil at 8:30, Speakers & Rally at 10 a.m. Friday March 18, 2023
Colorado State Capitol, NE lawn, 200 E. Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80203
Shattered: Moral Crisis in American Health Care
11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 19, 2023
Online: Zoom
Imagine! Health Care that Cares for You, Colorado
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2022
Zoom