Events
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 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.
Imagine health 4 all backyard fundraiser
for Universal Health Care (CO4UHC)
4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16 in Boulder
RSVP: Address provided with RSVP
All donations up to $5,000 will be matched!
Donate here and be matched!
Step into an enchanted backyard at the base of the Boulder foothills to help CO4UHC nurture and grow the powerful future possible when everyone enjoys guaranteed quality health care for all for life. Your support fuels our work for a bright day with health care for all in both Colorado and the US.
Healing US showing Fort Collins
When: September 21, 2023
5:15 – 5:45 p.m. Casual socializing
5:45- 6 p.m. Introduction of movie
6 – 7:15 p.m. Showing of Healing US
7:15- 7:55 p.m. Panel discussion hosted by the film’s Executive Producer Joe Jarvis, MD and guests TBD
Cost: Free
Harmony Library
4616 South Shields Street Fort Collins, CO 80526
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.
Watch the Trailer.
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 Colorado film premier
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 18
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
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
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.
Saturday 11/19 at Noon 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.
Moving Forward for Health Care Events Series
Join the Dance & Hula-Hoop-a-Thon 9/10 or create your own “athon!”
In person outdoors in Boulder, CO
Have fun and support the movement for universal health care in Colorado at the same time.
The Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care (CO4UHC) will host a series of fundraising events collectively called Moving Forward for Health Care, with a kick off event: Dance & Hula-Hoop-a-Thon from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10 outdoors with hydration and light snacks/social time to follow afterward until 5.
Excellent Boulder dance instructors will lead class each hour and include some hula hoop time and tricks.
Email: swright@couniversalhealth.org to particpate or learn more!
If you want to participate, let us know and we’ll provide all the info and materials you need to collect pledges per hour!
Mend Our Broken US Health Care System!
Noon, Saturday July 30th
Shattered Lives & Health Care Justice
Noon, May 14
Health care is a human right and a basic need. Lack of and limited access to health care creates barriers and is a root cause of social injustice. The current health care system is fundamentally unfair; it objectifies people, exploits health care providers and patients for the profit of the few, and harms most of us in some way. Providing health care to EVERY person living in the US would solidify our commitment to a healthy and just society while leveling the playing field.
Join Medical Professionals for Universal Healht Care (MP4UHC) for a diverse and lively panel discussion on the intersection of social justice and health care. We will discuss how all social justice issues are related and how a single payer universal health care system is an important step in guaranteeing social justice for all.
Denver: Health Care—Be Bolder Before We Keel Over
8:30 a.m. Vigil 10 a.m. Speakers & Rally
Friday, March 18
Colorado State Capitol, northeast sidewalk beside the northeast Capitol lawn
200 East Colfax Ave., Denver, Colorado 80203
Tell Gov. Jared Polis and Colorado legislators: act on the data you have!
About 3,500 Coloradans die EACH Year due to treatable causes. And that was before COVID-19.
Colorado legislators and Gov. Polis in September received the results of study by the Colorado School of Public Health showing that Colorado would save $billions and increase employment by including every Coloradan in one nonprofit single payer for our private health care. It was a bi-partisan bill, the Health Care Cost Savings Act of 2019, that led to this study! The legislators are sitting on the answer to covering every Colorado with quality health care.
Tell them to act on the solution they already have—before anymore of us keel over!
Online: Shattered—The Moral Crisis in American Health Care
11 a.m. MST Saturday, Feb. 19
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.
Chalk the Walk!
2 p.m. till dark, Sunday Nov. 14
Colorado Governor’s Residence, 400 E. 8th Ave. Denver, CO 80203
This is a youth-led event.
Come and chalk the walk in front of the Governor’s Mansion to bring awareness to the best option for Colorado: a single-payer health care payment system.
Chalk to tell Gov. Jared Polis and other elected officials to be bolder on health care.
Make creative art based on modernizing our health care system.
Bring yourself, arrive at 2 p.m, and chalk away! Rain date is Nov. 21.
Imagine! Health Care that Cares for You, Colorado
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 21 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.
Denver: March for Medicare for All!
10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, July 24
Colorado Capitol west steps
Show up, bring your friends, and spread the word!
Join the Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care and wonderful co-host partners. Show your support for national improved Medicare for All and/or universal health care for Colorado—whichever comes first! Sign up.
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. 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, 2021
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.
On the Road to Racial Justice: Medicare’s 55th Birthday Event & Fundraiser
July 30, 2021
Let’s win Improved Medicare for All so we don’t have to wait until we’re 65!
Join CO4UHC on Medicare’s birthday to celebrate Medicare’s enactment 55 years ago. Let’s build our capacity to help improve and expand Medicare to great care for us all. Special guest appearances, surprises, and fun for the cause.
Alex Lawson speaks on social justice and social security
July 18, 2021
Online: Zoom
Social Security Works Executive Director Alex Lawson coordinates multifaceted education and advocacy operations to protect and improve the economic security of disadvantaged and at-risk populations while maintaining Social Security as a vehicle of social justice. Join to hear from Lawson on racial, social, and health care justice!
Happy Birthday Fundraiser in Greeley
for Jeri and Bernie!
Boulder Backyard Imagine Health for All Fundraiser
4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 16 in Boulder
All donations up to $5,000 will be matched!
RSVP: Address provided with RSVP
Donate here and be matched
Past Events
Healing US Colorado Premier
Denver movie premier with special guest T.R. Reid
Join the Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care and its partners for the Colorado Premier of the documentary Healing US (2022). 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. Bestselling author and health care expert T.R. Reid will emcee and lead a discussion after the film. Watch the Trailer.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema—Sloans Lake
4255 W Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80204 Google Map & Directions
American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System
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.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema—Sloans Lake
4255 W Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80204 Google Map & Directions
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
Colorado State Capitol, NE lawn, 200 E. Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80203
Past Events
Shattered: Moral Crisis in American Health Care
11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 19
Online: Zoom
Chalk the Walk for single payer health care!
2 p.m. to dark, Sunday, Nov. 14. Rain date is Sept. 21
Colorado Governor’s Residence, 400 E 8th Ave. Denver, CO 80203
Past Events
Grow the grassroots monthly calls
6:30 p.m. the last Tuesday of each month
Zoom
Past Events
Imagine! Health Care that Cares for You, Colorado
6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21
Zoom
Denver: March for Medicare for All
10 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 24
Colorado State Capitol west steps
Imagine! Health Care that Cares for You
June 24, 2021
Zoom
Push to Pass Health Care Emergency Guarantee Act
Colorado Kickoff! 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30
Zoom
Definition: Global Gala for universal health care
Friday, Jun 5, 5pm
Zoom