FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 8, 2010

Contact: Mike Krause, Operations Director, 303-279-6536, or mike@i2i.org

Bill Owens Endorses Amendment 63

Former Colorado Governor Urges Support for “Right to Health Care Choice” Amendment

Golden, Colorado – Former Colorado Governor Bill Owens has formally endorsed a yes vote on Amendment 63, the “Right to Health Care Choice” citizens’ initiative.

“Amendment 63 is a crucial antidote to the kind of costly mandates Washington, D.C. has given us with Obama Care,” says Owens. “This initiative on November’s statewide ballot will help keep our state from heading down the dangerous path to more government control of medicine. I therefore strongly urge Coloradans to support Amendment 63.”

Amendment 63 would bar the state of Colorado from either implementing a Massachusetts style health insurance mandate at the state-level (aka Romney Care) or enforcing the recently passed federal mandate on behalf of the federal government. The amendment would also guarantee Coloradans the right to spend their own money on the lawful health care services they want, rather than what the government says they can have.

Bill Owens served as the 40th Governor of Colorado. He joins a growing list of former state and federal elected officials from Colorado who support Amendment 63 including former U.S. Senator and president of the University of Colorado Hank Brown, former Colorado Congressman Bob Beauprez and former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives Lola Spradley.

The Independence Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization based in Golden, Colo.

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