FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 15, 2010
Contact: Mike Krause, Operations Director, 303-279-6536, or mike@i2i.org
Congressman Mike Coffman Endorses Amendment 63
Urges Support for “Right to Health Care Choice” Amendment as Good Medicine for Colorado
Golden, Colorado - Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman has formally endorsed a yes vote on Amendment 63, the “Right to Health Care Choice” citizens’ initiative.
“I was there firsthand to fight the gross federal overreach of Obama Care, and the unseemly tactics and procedures used to pass it.” said Coffman. “While we may have lost the battle in D.C. this past year, empowering states to protect citizens’ healthcare freedoms is one important and promising front on which we can continue the struggle. That’s why I urge my fellow citizens to support Amendment 63 as good medicine for Colorado.”
If passed, Amendment 63 would write into the Colorado Constitution that the State of Colorado cannot force its citizens to purchase a public or private health insurance product, either on its own, or on behalf of the federal government. In other words, Colorado would not be able to implement a Massachusetts-style insurance mandate (otherwise known as Romney Care) nor enforce the federal individual mandate passed as part of Obama Care.
The amendment would also constitutionally protect fee-for-service health care by ensuring the right to pay out of pocket for lawful health care services and products if you so choose. Even if Colorado were to implement a single-payer health care system, Coloradans would be free to participate in voluntary, lawful exchange with a health care provider outside the system.
Representative Coffman serves Colorado’s 6th congressional district. Prior to being elected to the U.S. Congress, he served in the Colorado House of Representatives, the Colorado State Senate, and as both Colorado Treasurer and Secretary of State. He joins a growing list of current and former state and federal elected officials from Colorado who support Amendment 63 including former Colorado Governor Bill Owens, 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.
Full list of endorsements is available at http://www.amendment63.org/endorsements/.
The Independence Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization based in Golden, Colo.
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