What do you tell a woman—like the one I met in Greeley last week—who needed spinal surgery but couldn’t afford it?
Or a young man in Durango, battling a preexisting condition and likely to lose his coverage without a law to protect him? Or a woman in Cedaredge, frightened by her brother’s melanoma but forced to wait six months to see a dermatologist herself?
Don’t ask Cory Gardner. Despite all his noise to the contrary, Gardner has done everything he can to repeal the Affordable Care Act and offered no plan to replace it.
That’s a prescription for disaster.
Colorado can’t afford six more years of Cory Gardner. We need leaders committed to improving health care—not lackeys for an administration hellbent on destroying it.
That’s why we’ve been traveling across the state, listening to Coloradans and laying out a plan for reform. Our goal: a single-payer model that ensures health care for all.
Among other steps, I propose to:
- strengthen Medicare by adding benefits for vision, hearing, dental, and long-term care;
- increase reimbursement rates for Medicare providers in rural and other underserved communities;
- reduce prescription drug prices by negotiating deeper discounts from the pharmaceutical industry; and
- lower the age of Medicare eligibility to 0.
Learn more about our plan
here and let me know what you think.
As speaker of the Colorado House and as president of Mental Health Colorado, I’ve repeatedly taken on the insurance industry—and won. I authored laws to protect children from losing their coverage, provide treatment for mental health and substance use disorders, and penalize insurers who unreasonably delay or deny the payment of valid claims.
None of those victories came easily or overnight. But this is no time to relent.
Coloradans are fighting for our lives. We deserve a senator who will fight for us too.
Andrew Romanoff
