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.

Greeley attorney Jeri Shepherd and US Sen. Bernie Sanders, who share a birthday of Sept. 8, are pictured side by side with cake and confetti.

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.

 

Greeley attorney Jeri Shepherd and US Sen. Bernie Sanders, who share a birthday of Sept. 8, are pictured side by side with cake and confetti.

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.

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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.

Smiling people hold signs for Improved medicare for All

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.

A bunch of people in a row of various backgrounds and ailments together say "America, It's time for a Check Up."

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. 

Smiling people hold signs for Improved medicare for All

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. 

Smiling people hold signs for Improved medicare for All

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. 

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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. 

Denver and Fort Collins city councils have endorsed improved Medicare for all! Your city could be next!

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!

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Mend Our Broken US Health Care System!

Noon, Saturday July 30th

To celebrate Medicare & Medicaid’s 57th Birthday, Medical Professionals for Universal Health Care will host a panel to show the connection between health care justice, environmental justice, mental health care access, and equal rights for disabled humans!
Speakers include Lelieth Thompson, psychologist and Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care Board member, Tom Wilson, a disability rights and health care activist, and Juan Roberto Madrid, who pairs his experience with health care as a Navy Special OPS and SEALS team member with a Master’s in Public Health and a passion for environmental justice.
Learn more about these speakers and register today! At the event, learn what we can each do to raise the bar for everyone and win universal health care for Coloradans!
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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. 

A shattered stethoscope paired with the title Shattered Lives & Health Care Justice

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!

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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.

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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.

Smiling people hold signs for Improved medicare for All

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. 

Check out this link to the full report.

Click here to read the 7-page summary.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Smiling people hold signs for Improved medicare for All

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. 

 

A group of diverse Americans in a crowd wear masks. At three of the masks read "Improved Medicare for All."

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!

Greeley attorney Jeri Shepherd and US Sen. Bernie Sanders, who share a birthday of Sept. 8, are pictured side by side with cake and confetti.

Happy Birthday Fundraiser in Greeley
for Jeri and Bernie!

A bunch of people in a row of various backgrounds and ailments together say "America, It's time for a Check Up."

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

A bunch of people in a row of various backgrounds and ailments together say "America, It's time for a Check Up."

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

A woman screams as a freaky looking alien grabs her.

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

A woman screams as a freaky looking alien grabs her.

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.

    Learn more about our speakers here. 

A woman screams as a freaky looking alien grabs her.

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

Denver and Fort Collins city councils have endorsed improved Medicare for all! Your city could be next!

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

A shattered stethoscope paired with the title Shattered Lives & Health Care Justice

Mend Our Broken US Health Care System!

Noon Saturday, July 30, 2022

Online on Zoom

Three young people leaping over snow and ice. Happy, but also looks like the might be slipping.

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

Smiling people hold signs for Improved medicare for All

Shattered: Moral Crisis in American Health Care

11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 19

Online: Zoom

Smiling people hold signs for Improved medicare for All

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

Smiling people hold signs for Improved medicare for All

Grow the grassroots monthly calls

6:30 p.m. the last Tuesday of each month

Zoom

Past Events

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Imagine! Health Care that Cares for You, Colorado

6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21

Zoom

A happy ban in a cap stands inside a rainbow, arms raised, in a sunshine yellow sky.

Denver: March for Medicare for All

10 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 24

Colorado State Capitol west steps

A happy ban in a cap stands inside a rainbow, arms raised, in a sunshine yellow sky.

Imagine! Health Care that Cares for You

June 24, 2021

Zoom

Smiling people hold signs for Improved medicare for All

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