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The following issues have been of vital importance to Ramey over the course of her first term as State Representative:

Health Care
  • Fight for affordable medical care
  • Stop substandard nursing home care
  • Protect dignity of older Lakewood Residents
  • Support Medical Savings Accounts (MSA)
  • Sponsored two senior health fairs

Click for Ramey's letter on health care reform



Transportation

  • Encourage multi-faceted use of highways and transit options
  • Respect each community's special needs and character
  • Sponsored three 6th Avenue summits dealing with increasing noise concerns impacting property values and quality of life
 
Resources Business & Economy
  • Supported water property rights
  • Voted for local control of water solutions
  • Repair existing reservoirs before building more
  • Work to develop clean and affordable energy options
  • Oppose duplicate governmental services/laws
  • Provide an educated workforce for the future
  • Help small business survive
  • Strengthened laws to prevent ID theft
 

As a State Legislator, Ramey sponsored the following common sense bills – all signed into law by the Governor:

  • Worker's compensation benefits strengthened and much of the red tape cut.
  • Two bills closed some of the loopholes in Colorado’s child pornography laws.
  • The State Veteran's Home at Fitzsimmons will continue to provide quality care to veterans, and benefits will not decrease.
  • Hospitals must now notify a patient PRIOR to turning in their name over to a collection agency for bad debt. If an insurance company did not pay the bill, the patient should not be the last one to know.
  • If a person fraudulently reports abuse or neglect regarding at-risk adults to social services it is now a misdemeanor – the same as fraudulent reporting of child abuse. 20% of the cases reported to social services regarding adult abuse are "family members creating problems for other family members."
  • Patients may elect to have their diagnosis/symptom noted on their prescriptive drug label. Typically, seniors take 8-12 prescription meds per day and often don't know why they are taking them. Colorado is the first state in the nation to pass such legislation.
  • A study was created to explore the benefits of moving the Colorado Geological Survey to the Colorado School of Mines. This would remove TABOR restrictions on receiving adequate grant money.
  • Anyone using the title "nurse" must now have the education, licensure, and expertise of that title. People expect a certain level of trust and confidentiality when they confide in a nurse.
  • First year college students now receive disclosure of the availability of the meningitis vaccine following an 8% increase of meningitis incidents among freshmen in communal living on college campuses.
 
 

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