Lower Costs + Less Red Tape =
- Increased Quality
- Patient Centered Care
- Thriving Businesses
- Less Government Spending
- Family Financial Security
Common Sense Health Care for Utah is a grassroots coalition of citizens who want to transform our current overly complex, overly expensive and very inefficient system of financing health care delivery into one that lowers costs and administrative burden.
Our goal is to place a citizens’ initiative on Utah’s ballot which will enact a law that will streamline private health insurance into a centrally managed financier of health care services.
The resulting efficiency will empower cost savings and reduction in administrative burdens to:
- Allow Utah’s health care facilities to invest in patient safety and quality, not billing administration.
- Refocus the attention of Utah’s medical practitioners toward their patients and away from prior authorizations and insurance contracts.
- Return Utah’s businesses back to what they do best; providing excellent products and services rather than navigating the headaches of medical benefit design and cost.
- Lower the financial burden that Utah’s state, county and city governments bear for public health care programs and health insurance benefits for their employees with more revenue available for other valuable public service needs or lower taxes for us all.
- Give some much needed relief to Utah’s families in their out-of-pocket health care costs and eliminate dangerous financial barriers to care or fear of bankruptcy.
Healthcare for Utahns
Vision and Mission:
Our health care system is broken. To ensure a vibrant economy and healthy families, every Utahn should have quality medical care regardless of employer, medical history or income.
Our mission is to establish a high quality, comprehensive, truly affordable health care system for all Utahns.
Common Sense Health Care Board Members
George Groberg MD, Retired Pediatrician
Chris Anderson, MD
Christine B Helfrich, BS, CCRP
Scott Poppen, MD, MPA
Brent Baranko, M.D., FAAOS
Mark Hurst BS, University of Utah; AA SLCC (Paralegal), Board Secretary
J. David Lesser, MD
Additional Contributing Members
Fred Gottlieb
Jan Garbett
Emily Bingham
Lynn Webster
Andre Baksh
Karina Brown
Make a Difference!
How You Can Help
We are a grassroots, people-powered campaign and we can’t do this without your help! JOIN US! You are the key to better, simpler and cheaper healthcare for all Utahns.
Donate
Together, we can create a future in Utah where health care is a human right and everyone has the freedom to live without medical debt. Your donation will protect the health care rights of other Utahns.
Volunteer
Do you have a passion for health care in Utah? Have you always wanted work in the community for a cause that matters? Do you have knowledge, skills, or a desire to help? Then we want YOU!
Create an Alliance
Are you involved with a similar organization who has the same goals? We want to partner with you and work together so we can impact the most number of people in Utah.