Re: Foes say health care proposal would devastate Colorado, Jan. 29 news story.
Predictions that Colorado s proposed single-payer health care system will be devastating and damage the economy are spot on. A quick look at single-payer systems shows a nearly unbroken track record of poor care and high costs.
Consider the fact that Canadian patients wait 18 weeks on average to see a specialist. And Vermont s governor abandoned his planned single-payer system after realizing that the potential economic disruption and risks would be too great to small businesses, working families and the state s economy.
Coloradans only need to look at other countries and states to see why single-payer doesn t work.
Byron G. McCurdy, Denver
The writer is president of the Colorado Association of Health Underwriters.
This letter was published in the Feb. 14 edition.
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