Mass-Care put Single Payer Health Care on the ballot in 11 districts as a non-binding public policy question.
Mass-Care has run this question 68 times beginning in 1998. The average of District Yes vote percentages is 67.5%. See our History of Public Policy (Non-Binding) BQs.
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2024 Ballot Question Results
Single Payer Ballot Question wins - even in districts Trump carried
Single Payer Health Care won in all 11 districts with an average Yes vote of 64%. In two of the districts, 3rd Hampden and 4th Hampden, Medicare for All won and the district voted for Donald Trump at the same time. These results are official and you can click on the percent to see district details, both numbers and percents.
The Ballot Question read:
"Shall the Representative for this District be instructed to vote for legislation to create a single-payer system of universal health care that provides all Massachusetts residents with comprehensive health care coverage including the freedom to choose doctors and other health care professionals, facilities, and services and eliminates the role of insurance companies in health care by creating an insurance trust fund that is publicly administered?"
Districts who voted:
3rd Berkshire - Rep. Elect Leigh Davis - 70.9% (click on percent to see details)
3rd Hampden - Rep. Nicholas Boldyga - 51.8% - Trump carried this District.
4th Hampden - Rep. Kelly Pease - 55.1% - Trump carried this District.
5th Essex - Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante - 61.0%
3rd Middlesex - Rep. Kate Hogan - 60.7% - Rep. Hogan is Speaker Pro Tempore.
10th Middlesex - Rep. John Lawn - 68.5% - Rep. Lawn is the House Chair of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing.
24th Middlesex - Rep. David Rogers - 69.2%
7th Norfolk - Rep. Elect Richard Wells - 62.4%
2nd Suffolk - Rep. Daniel Ryan - 65.8%
10th Suffolk - Rep. William MacGregor - 64.8%
14th Suffolk - Rep. Rob Consalvo - 74.2%
Cities and Towns that voted on Question 6 were: Agawam, Alford, Arlington, Becket, Belmont, Blandford, Bolton, Boston Ward 2 (Precincts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), Boston Ward 4 (Precinct 10A), Boston Ward 5 (Precincts 10, 12), Boston Ward 21 (Precinct 1), Brookline, Cambridge Ward 1 (Precincts 1, 2), Cambridge Ward 2 (Precincts 2, 3), Chester, Dalton, Egremont, Essex, Everett, Gloucester, Granville, Great Barrington, Hudson, Huntington, Lee, Lenox, Manchester by the Sea, Maynard, Middlefield, Milton, Monterey, Montgomery, Mount Washington, New Marlborough, Newton, Otis, Randolph, Richmond. Rockport. Russell, Sandisfield, Sheffield (Question 7), Southampton, Southwick, Stockbridge, Stow, Tolland, Tyringham, Waltham, Washington, Watertown, West Stockbridge, and Westfield.
Non-binding policy questions are a tool to gauge voter interest on specific issues.