Good Business Colorado (GBC) is a grassroots organization of values-driven business owners across the state working together to build a prosperous economy, equitable communities, and a sustainable environment. Our members have identified healthcare as a top priority issue for this year’s session. That is why we are writing to ask you to vote yes for HB24-1075 Analysis of Universal Health-Care Payment System.

We have heard concern from members that employees' wages can't keep pace with the rising cost of health care, and that despite exorbitant prices, the quality of care continues to decline, leaving even the insured to feel fundamentally unprotected. They are interested in exploring the option of a publicly financed health care system that could make it easier to grow, providing good jobs for Coloradans in their industries.

HB24-1075 would follow up on and leverage the significant data already compiled in a 2019 report by conducting a detailed feasibility analysis of a statewide publicly financed healthcare system in Colorado, including how to finance it, and the impact to the economic sector. Whether or not such a system turns out to be the right one for Colorado, we need non-biased data to allow good decision making and it is important for the analysis to be carried out in the public’s view.