In a recent op-ed published by the Denver Post, Colorado House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese and Representative Anthony Hartsook call attention to the push by some Colorado lawmakers’ “to explore replacing our state’s entire health insurance system with a one-size-fits-all government-controlled ‘single payer’” system.

Representatives Pugliese and Hartsook point out that the proposal would come with “negative consequences for Coloradans,” including “unaffordably high costs and after 80% of Colorado voters rejected single-payer at the polls in 2016,” explaining:

Our state’s recent experiences, both with the failed proposal to create single-payer health care and the ongoing failures of the Colorado Option, have already shown us that a state government-controlled health insurance system is not the solution to making health care more affordable or accessible in Colorado … With the state government-controlled Colorado Option, premiums continue to rise, and coverage options are fewer.

To read the full Denver Post op-ed, click here.