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ColoradoCare backers collected 156,000 petitions for single-payer plan
State. Sen. Irene Aguilar, a medical doctor and Denver Democrat, unloads a box of petitions delivered by a decommissioned ballot to get ColoradoCare on the 2016 ballot. The single-payer healthcare plan would replace Obamacare in Colorado. (Joey Bunch, The Denver Post)
Proponents of a single-payer health care plan in Colorado collected more than 156,000 signatures to get it on the November 2016 ballot, far more than the 98,492 needed.
The signatures await verification.
The ColoradoCaresYes campaign delivered 27 bushel-sized boxes of petitions in a decommissioned ambulance and wheeled them in on a stretcher Friday morning. The plan's chief proponent, state Sen. Irene Aguilar, a medical doctor and Democrat from Denver, wore her white lab coat as she pulled along the stretcher.
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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29013454/coloradocare-backers-collected-156-000-petitions-single-payer