2026 Candidates Who Support Massachusetts Single Payer

REPRESENTATIVE CANDIDATES
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Connor Murray(opens in new tab)
18th Essex

Massachusetts has the best health care in the United States. That's an achievement we should be proud of; however, it is incredibly difficult to take pride in a system designed to bankrupt the average resident of our Commonwealth. One in eight Massachusetts residents are in medical debt. Many more struggle to pay their bills. In other words, Massachusetts has invested in a world-class health care system ... that its own taxpayers cannot afford. I see this as a systemic failure requiring foundational change. And I see Medicare for All as the solution we deserve. By reducing the administrative burden on providers, eliminating high out-of-pocket premiums and deductibles, and stabilizing costs across the state, we will save money for families, businesses, and municipalities alike and show our residents that we take their medical care seriously. This is a vital opportunity for Massachusetts to lead the nation towards a future where the human right of health care is truly guaranteed to all.

Devin Kreinbring(opens in new tab)
10th Suffolk

It is a fundamental belief of mine and a part of the Workers Party of MA program: "Socialized health care and medicine for all – Expand community health centers – Free abortion and reproductive healthcare."

Rosemary Aahanna-Hill(opens in new tab)
7th Plymouth

I think we all know, deep down, that health care is a human right. For more than 2,000 years, the Hippocratic tradition has recognized a physician’s ethical duty to care for the sick. Yet our employer-based health care system grew largely out of World War II, when wage controls encouraged employers to offer health insurance as a benefit instead of higher wages. Tax policy later cemented that system. More than 80 years later, it no longer functions the way it was intended. What once supplemented wages now increasingly pulls from them through premiums, deductibles, and rising health care costs. It costs more. It covers less. And it ties health care security to a W-2 in an economy increasingly built around small businesses, contractors, freelancers, and entrepreneurs. A single-payer system is the modern-day solution to an outdated system. Because our society and our economy are stronger when people are healthy and families are not buried in medical debt, it is time to decouple health care from employment, cut the red tape, and build a system that protects our health, our wages, and our freedom to build our own dreams.

Representative Michelle DuBois(opens in new tab)
10th Plymouth
Cosponsor

It is long past the time that we should be ensuring health care to our residents regardless of income level, to reduce health disparities, offer preventive care to people, and decouple health care from job status/employer.

Representative Lisa Field(opens in new tab)
3rd Bristol
Cosponsor

Our health care system is broken. Mass. Single Payer/Medicare for All guarantees health care as a universal human right, eliminates profit-driven administration waste, and lowers overall costs.

Edward Pacheco(opens in new tab)
9th Bristol

Health care is a right, not a privilege. No family should be forced to choose between paying for medical care and paying their bills, and no one should face financial hardship because they become sick. Medicare for All, first, would expand access to health care by ensuring that every resident in Massachusetts has coverage regardless of income, employment, or pre-existing conditions. Second, it would simplify a complex health care system that currently burdens patients, providers, and businesses with excessive administrative costs. Third, it would help control health care spending by leveraging the purchasing power of a large public system to negotiate lower costs for services and prescription medications. I also recognize that transitioning to Medicare for All could impact many hardworking people currently employed in the private health insurance industry. Any responsible Medicare for All proposal must include a comprehensive plan for displaced workers, including retraining opportunities, wage assistance, job placement services, and pathways into growing healthcare and public service professions. Health care reform should be guided by fairness, compassion, and practical solutions. Medicare for All, coupled with strong protections for affected workers, offers an opportunity to create an equal ground health system and more secure future for everyone.

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Jack Richardson(opens in new tab)
3rd Barnstable

In one of the richest states per capita in the richest nation in the history of our planet, there is no excuse why we cannot afford Medicare for All.