The Denver City Council on Monday passed a Proclamation Endorsing Improved Medicare for All as the State or National Health System. Joining almost 100 US cities including Fort Collins, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Milwaukie, Tucson, Seattle, Minneapolis, and the Town of Jamestown, Colo., the Denver Council took this action to stand for the wellbeing of everyone… Read More »Denver passes Proclamation for Improved Medicare for All!
As a young woman in my 20s, I know many people my age who are no stranger to the lifestyle of the proverbial “starving college student;” however, many of them are not students at all, but full-time employed young people who struggle to pay rent and put food on the table, let alone pay for health care during a pandemic.
Lincoln, my friend of 20 years, called in early April to let me know that he had taken his mother to the doctor on two separate occasions and her symptoms were minimized, dismissed and she was sent home. The third and final time the staff decided to test her. That’s when they discovered his mother had COVID-19. She died later that day.
The Emergency Health Care Guarantee Act (S-3790 and HR-6906 respectively), would cover all out-of-pocket charges for those with insurance and all charges for those without any coverage during the pandemic and cost LESS than extending Cobra.
It’s time for Colorado to do what’s simple, needed, and fair: Pay for health care for everyone by collecting payroll taxes everyone can afford.
We’re not going back. How ever we slowly open up, it will be into a new normal.
I have donated thousands of hours and thousands of dollars.
Our current patchwork of health care coverage leaves us vulnerable.
