APA’s Healthcare Action Team believes that Healthcare is a Human Right, not a commodity.
For-profit corporations should not be involved with healthcare. This would eliminate huge administrative costs such as enormous CEO salaries, stockholder dividends, advertising, and buildings full of health management staff.
Patients should have the freedom to choose their doctor, hospital, therapists, and pharmacies with no control by third party insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
Universal healthcare should include ALL aspects of physical and mental health from cradle to grave. Coverage for dental care, vision, hearing, therapy, and prescriptions must be included. Prevention and education should be emphasized.
The cost of healthcare will be financed by everyone according to their ability to pay. Deductibles and copays will disappear. Studies show the cost for most individuals will be significantly less than current out-of-pocket costs for less coverage.
What We Do
Our team works toward a universal, single-payer healthcare system. We support the Affordable Care Act only as an interim step. We provide education and legislative advocacy. We work in partnership with other progressive groups.
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We meet every month
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Attend Healthcare Lobby Days and speak with representatives at the state capital.
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Show healthcare-related movies such as: “Healing Us,” “Sicko,” “Sick Around the World,” and “Where to Invade Next”.
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Advocate for single-payer healthcare from tables at rallies and Arvada festivals.
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Participate in Healthcare Alliance weekly meetings with other statewide groups advocating for universal, affordable, comprehensive healthcare.
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Present at general APA meetings with speakers including doctors, legislators, and researchers. Our biggest 2025 action was supporting the SB25-045 Healthcare Payment System Analysis and helping with the fundraising efforts for the study.
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The 2025 CO legislature authorized a Colorado Healthcare Payment Plan Analysis to be done by the CO School of Public Health. Alliance organizations committed to healthcare reform were able to raise the $750,000 needed to include a long-term care component. Gifts and donations from over 400 people paid for the study. Thanks to all who contributed!
- We anticipate the Analysis will answer the questions all involved might have, including “What would it mean for me?” The School began the research in February 2026 and will present their findings to the legislature when the study is completed at the end of December, 2026. See updates on the study.
- The CO School of Public Health is considering the implications, financial, economic and social, if all Colorado residents joined a single risk pool and payment plan that provides healthcare coverage, including “The 10 ESSENTIALS.” How much more affordable and easier it would be to access healthcare for all Colorado residents if our healthcare system included the following:
– It shall provide comprehensive benefits for medically necessary care, including dental, hearing, vision, and mental health.
– It shall provide home care and long-term care at least at the level of coverage currently available to Medicaid-eligible persons in Colorado.
– Health care decisions shall be made by patients and their health care providers.
– Patients shall have free choice among qualified providers.
– It shall cover all Colorado residents.
– The system and the cost of care shall be funded by premiums based on the ability to pay.
– There shall be no deductibles or copays.
– The agency shall ensure fair drug and hospital prices as well as fair payment to providers.
– It shall be a publicly administered nonprofit enterprise and the sole agency paying for Colorado’s health care costs.
– To avoid profiteering, there will be no middlemen with the incentives and power to limit benefits or impose other barriers to care.
– For additional information:
https://fixhealthcarenowcolorado.org/
https://www.healthcareforallcolorado.org/
People Over Profit
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
