ColoradoCare backers collect 156,000 signatures for single-payer plan

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7. That's contingent upon costs keeping within that 10%. Vermont wasn't able to do so.

Remember, the state exchange is dropping 80,000 -- which is effectively everyone in it -- and as you noted insurance premiums are higher than 10% of payroll. If the insurance exchange can't work at a higher rate I don't see how CC can hold at its proposed 10%.

Also, according to the state constitution, all tax increases must be enacted through a ballot referendum. The CC initiative exempts the payroll tax from that requirement allowing the board to raise taxes on its own initiative without even going through the legislature. Last election a school levy was defeated over a similar provision that allowed the legislature to raise taxes without a referendum. I don't see people voting to give that power to a committee.