David Harsanyi writes about Bill Ritter and healthcare in today's Denver Post. From the article, "Essentially, his plan to fix the health care system is more of a process. Bring all the players to the table - insurers, insurees, government, employers - and hash it out. After all, he explained, we have more than 700,000 uninsured in Colorado. No one should go without medical care. But we should remember that not all of these uninsured people are "persistently uninsured" and some are also Medicaid- eligible. Additionally, many young adults choose not to have insurance. So the numbers can be a bit deceiving. Ritter keyed in on three major problems that plague our health care system. First, access to care. Second, geographical problems (in rural Colorado, for instance, he explained, some residents have access to a doctor only once a week.) Third, level of care. While it is refreshing to hear a Democrat such as Ritter throw out the occasional phrase like 'personal responsibility,' it was evident that he was staking a position in the winning mold of Sen. Ken Salazar's senatorial campaign...
"[State Senator Shawn] Mitchell, of Broomfield, asked those gathered who support more government and government-run health care 'to at least consider' some of the negative elements of big bureaucracy. Do we want health care run like the motor-vehicle department? Do we want the disaster that awaits us with a "single- payer," government-run health care system? Mitchell pointed out a recent Canadian Supreme Court opinion on that nation's public health care system, which was blamed for producing more inequality and poor care."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
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