Solving the Healthcare Crisis: A Single Payer Model for Massachusetts. Join Mass-Care at the Waltham Public Library on Wednesday, October 29, 2026, at 6:30pm. Come hear about the options for a more sustainable, effective, compassionate, and equitable system.
An Act Establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts is the solution to federal cuts to health care. The Act creates the Massachusetts Health Care Trust, a single payer public health insurance system for all Massachusetts residents. H.1405/S.860. The Republican agenda…
The recent crisis of the Steward Health Care system’s bankruptcy and threat to close nine hospitals serving eastern and southeastern Massachusetts demonstrates the problem of having for-profit corporations owning vital health care institutions and infrastructure.
Senate’s PACT Act will give relief to patients using insulin, but will not lower prescription drug prices.
Massachusetts Association of Health Plans President & CEO Lora Pellegrini criticized single payer healthcare on grounds that were inaccurate and misleading. MAHP’s characterization of An Act Establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts is inaccurate, and includes claims debunked by the Oct. 26 hearing by the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing and the economic analysis by Prof. Gerald Friedman, UMass Amherst.