2002 Green Party candidate for Governor of Colorado, 2000 candidate for Congress, CO

Available to speak on the following subjects:
Single Payer Universal Health Care
Medicare / Social Security Reform

Bio
Ron Forthofer, Ph.D., was the 2002 Green Party candidate for Governor of Colorado and 2000 candidate for Congress. Since he retired near the end of 1991, he has been a volunteer for peace and social justice issues primarily with the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center. He has also been involved with the single-payer health care finance reform issue in Colorado and is one of the founders and the first president of Health Care for All Colorado. In addition, he has been a reservist with the Christian Peacemaker Teams and has gone on several delegations, including two to Palestine/Israel.

Forthofer was also a writer and on the editorial committee of the Main Street Free Press, an all-volunteer monthly free paper along the Northern Front Range of Colorado. They published and distributed about 4000 papers a month (at first a bimonthly paper) for over three years, ending with their December 2006 issue. He has also worked on trade issues and was one of the founding members of the Front Range Fair Trade Coalition.

Forthofer is a retired professor of biostatistics from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston. He also spent a sabbatical year with the National Center for Health Statistics (1980-81) and as a consultant for Hoechst in Germany from late 1984 to late 1986.

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