Mass-Care’s mission is to establish a single payer health care system in Massachusetts so that all residents of the Commonwealth will have access to comprehensive, quality, and equitable health care, publicly financed and free of out-of-pocket cost at point-of-care, because it is basic to life and human dignity.
Mass-Care was launched in 1995 as a coalition of Massachusetts organizations sharing a deep concern about the inequities of our health care system. Our strategy is premised on the belief that only a large-scale grassroots movement will be able to win reform that guarantees universal single payer health care.
Mass-Care is a coalition of almost 100 member organizations representing diverse constituencies--the elderly, low income people, various religious groups, labor unions, teachers, nurses, social workers, doctors, women, immigrants, and local towns and cities. Together, these organizations represent hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts residents who are active, enthusiastic supporters of single payer reform in Massachusetts.
The grassroots effort of our organization distinguishes Mass-Care from the efforts of other groups in Massachusetts that are funded primarily by power-brokers in the business community and health industry. Mass-Care sponsors the Massachusetts Medicare for All act, which would establish the Massachusetts Health Care Trust, a single payer of comprehensive health care for all residents of Massachusetts.