Colorado: Petitions submitted for healthcare choice measure
On August 1, Jon Caldara of the Independence Institute turned in nearly 131,000 signatures to qualify a ballot initiative for the November election that would take Colorado out of the federal government’s mandated health insurance requirement. The “Right to Health Care Choice” ballot initiative would amend the state constitution to say that no statute or policy adopted or enforced by the state shall require someone to participate in any public or private health insurance plan, health care coverage or health benefit plan.