About

Colorado Voices for Coverage (CVC) is part of a national grant program from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This project supports state health care coverage efforts by fostering strong and robust advocacy infrastructures. The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative is leading the statewide collaboration and is in partnership with a leadership team of organizations including: the Business Health Forum and the Colorado Council of Churches. The coalition is guided by an advisory council made up of diverse consumer groups representing multiple constituencies.
 
The goal of this collaborative project is to increase access to healthcare for all Coloradans. Our objective is to expand the capacity of consumer constituencies to achieve meaningful healthcare reform in Colorado. We define meaningful healthcare reform as expanding coverage to the underinsured and uninsured, while decreasing the high costs that are significant barriers to access.
 
Four core values drive our work:
1. Increased access to healthcare coverage for all Coloradans. Access is defined as: affordable, culturally appropriate, overcoming geographic barriers and helping navigate the healthcare system.
2. Increased transparency of healthcare costs and quality of the Colorado healthcare system.
3. Increased efficiency and continuing improvement of the healthcare system.
4. Educated consumers who take an active role in their own health, healthcare and in the healthcare reform process.
 
Over the past decade, there has been a significant shift in awareness, attitudes, and the vision for creating real health care reform in this country. With skyrocketing health care costs and deteriorating access to affordable coverage, more and more people are demanding change for a stronger health care system that is there when they need it.
 
Colorado Voices for Coverage is dedicated to boosting the enormous groundswell of activity at the state level to reduce the number of people living without health insurance. The program supports the important role that state-based consumer health advocacy can play in promoting innovative and comprehensive health reform efforts at the state level.