The Partnership for a Healthy Colorado seeks to bridge the divides, identify common values, and engender the political courage necessary to achieve meaningful, comprehensive health care reform in Colorado.
We Agree: Our Shared Health Care Reform Principles
The Current System
Shared Responsibility, Shared Principles
- We all have a stake in the urgent need to improve the delivery of health care in Colorado.
- For decades, the cost and demand for care has been outpacing out economy. The corresponding increase in health insurance premiums has resulted in a growing number of people unable to access health care they can afford.
- Too often, health care is being delivered inefficiently, to the detriment of our state's physical and financial health.
- These trends are unsustainable and the status quo is unacceptable.
Shared Responsibility, Shared Principles
- Reforming Colorado's health care system in a meaningful way will require the responsible engagement of numerous stakeholders. Toward that end, we believe this set of principles, developed by a diverse coalition of businesses, consumers, and providers of the Partnership for a Healthy Colorado can serve as a valuable roadmap to reform.
- No principle is meant to be taken on its own, but rather, all are meant to be taken in balance with, and in consideration, of the others.
- Genuine reform will require a comprehensive, systemic approach that emphasizes shared responsibility.
