Massachusetts Medicare for All Ought to Pass
Please join this letter campaign to your state legislators asking them to:
- urge the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing to report An Act Establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts, Bills H.1405 and S.860, favorably, as "Ought to Pass".
- and ask Leadership, starting with Speaker Mariano and President Spilka, to ask the JCHCF to report the Act favorably.
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The Massachusetts Legislature has the opportunity to confront the many crises in health care by passing An Act Establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts. But first, the Act needs to get a favorable report by the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing.
With this Act, the Commonwealth can guarantee equitable health care access for every resident of the Commonwealth through the Massachusetts Health Care Trust, a single payer of all medically necessary care. All residents will be guaranteed access, without regard to financial or employment status, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, previous health problems, or geographic location. The Act will provide continuous access to health care services, without the current need for repeated re-enrollments or changes when employers choose new plans and residents change jobs. Coverage will be comprehensive and publicly financed, free of out-of-pocket cost at point-of-care, with no co-insurance, co-payments, deductibles, or any other form of patient cost sharing.