Colorado's Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform has posted their "Draft Solicitation for Colorado Health Reform Proposals" (catchy title, eh?).
The public can provide input up until 9 February.
The questions are generally good, as are the criteria. For instance:
• Does this proposal expand access? If so, please explain.
• Does your proposal decrease or contain health care costs? How?
• Does your proposal address consumer choice? If so, how?
• Are new public funds required for your proposal?
• How is your proposal sustainable over the long-term?
• (Optional) How will your proposal impact cost-shifting?
• How will the program be governed and administered?
Sounds like a test, doesn't it? And you don't get paid for completing it, or even get any credit hours — it's rather called public service. Or wonkishness. Or obsession.
And notice that if they were really looking at this objectively, it's hard to imagine how a single-payer proposal wouldn't walk away with the honors. The scoring criteria also favors single-payer: comprehensiveness, access, coverage, affordability, portability, benefits, quality, efficiency, consumer choice, wellness and prevention, financing, and implementation.
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