BARB'S PLAN TO
REBUILD COLORADO
​Colorado is unravelling, both literally and figuratively. Colorado’s roads are crumbling. Our facilities and institutions are failing. Our schools lose students, and test scores remain low, but school district administrative ranks keep growing. Our insurance market is falling apart.
BARB'S PLAN:
Education
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Require at least 65% of funding to be spent in the classroom.
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Require evidence of improved learning before new programs can be continued.
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Support school district efforts to ban phones in classrooms.
Institutions
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Enforce strict safety and high staff performance standards at all state institutions serving youth, mental health patients, and developmentally disabled individuals.
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Fully fund Colorado’s State Mental Health Hospital to ensure violent offenders do not walk free.
Roads
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Implement a $6 billion plan over four years to build, expand, and better maintain Colorado's crumbling roads and highways. Read my plan here
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Prioritize road repair and maintenance over non-road spending, such as bike paths and sound walls.
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Improve local/regional prioritization of spending priorities, leading from the local-up, rather than top-down.
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Restore full funding and accelerate construction of state and regional priority projects.
Insurance
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Expand rural health care accessibility
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Get government and insurance companies out of the middle of the doctor-patient relationship.
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Allow Medicaid beneficiaries to use their benefits to “buy into” the private insurance market.
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Ensure price transparency, so consumers and patients know the cost of any treatment or procedure in advance.