COVID-19 Pandemic:
Challenges and Opportunities for Healthcare Response and Innovation
Colorado business leaders and healthcare professionals have stepped up to provide care through new channels, protect and support employees, leverage innovative technologies, adapt to rapid advancement of treatments and collaborate with local governments and communities.
As Colorado’s healthcare and business sectors have worked together to overcome the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, Colorado policy makers should look to the advantages of private-public partnerships, innovations and best practices that surfaced during the pandemic for new opportunities to improve on what is working in our current healthcare system.
The Colorado Business Roundtable is focused on effective private sector solutions, working together with healthcare policies already in place, to expand access to quality healthcare and improve affordability for all Coloradans – not starting over with government-centric proposals like a state public option.
Physician Executives Guide a Successful Covid-19 Response in Colorado
Chief medical officers (CMOs) of seven health care systems collaborated to lead Colorado through the Covid-19 surge by harnessing the four “superpowers” of perspective, partnership, patient advocacy, and peer support.
Opinion: The public option won’t work for Colorado
When it comes to improving health care, most Coloradans want the same thing: lower costs, improved access and a higher quality of care.
Studies show a state government-run public option could threaten employer-provided coverage for millions, worsen the state budget shortfall, and hurt access to healthcare in Colorado.
There are too many unknowns about the true costs of a state public option, and the timing is not right.
We are relying on our healthcare system now more than ever. We need policy makers to focus on strengthening and stabilizing our healthcare system so all Coloradans can access the care they need.
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Heidi Ganahl
Founder, SheFactor; Regent, University of Colorado; Founder, Camp Bow Wow
“And how we, as employers and small business owners, can provide that as a benefit to our customer which is the employee and make sure that they have fantastic healthcare that’s affordable and high-quality without the government telling us what that looks like for everyone as a blanket statement.”
Brian Perry
President, Peak Benefits
“While we can all agree this marketplace needs disruption, the fact is that the government is not going to be that disrupter. It never is. What is, is the private sector making the decision to make the disruptive change that makes things better and cheaper.”
Christine Jensen
Producing Branch Manager, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation
“Imagine a group of regulators sitting around the table trying to find a solution and imagine a group of healthcare professionals sitting around the table trying to find solutions, which one do you think is going to come up with the better answer?”
Heidi Ganahl
Founder, SheFactor; Regent, University of Colorado; Founder, Camp Bow Wow
“I know that policy makers usually have their heart in the right place, but government is not the answer, more government is not the answer to fixing healthcare.”
Brian Perry
President, Peak Benefits
“What the marketplace needs is disruption. This marketplace needs to be disrupted the same way that Uber disrupted the taxicab market or Netflix disrupted Blockbuster. Right? There’s two things that have to happen with disruption. It has to be better and it has to be cheaper. The government is not going to come up with Uber. That’s not what government does.”
Christine Jensen
Producing Branch Manager, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation
“My experience has told me that when you put together a group of professionals that live and breathe that industry every day that they can find far more practical and cost-effective solutions than any regulator can ever find.”