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Single-Payer Health Care Lobby Day
January 23, 2019, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
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Join LWVMA and our partners at Mass-Care to tell your legislators you support single-payer health care. The Single-Payer Lobby Day at the State House is Wednesday, Jan. 23. Meet at 11 a.m. at the Grand Staircase for a mini-rally and information session before visiting your own legislators and delivering information packets on the single-payer bills.
As you know, our current healthcare insurance system is failing to meet our healthcare needs, and is very costly.
A number of Amherst and Northampton League members have been working with Western Mass. Medicare for All to build support for a Medicare for All plan for our Commonwealth. This health insurance plan would cover everyone with lifetime, guaranteed, comprehensive, all-inclusive health insurance, and cost much less too.
There is strong public support for this improved healthcare plan in the Valley. The good news is that our newly elected senator and representatives support single-payer health care. Previous bills have been held in legislative committees for years. Our League has studied and worked since the 1980’s on having a National Single Payer Health Insurance Plan. We believe now may finally be an opportunity to change this situation.
Currently, bills are being submitted at the State level again for consideration Now is time to get these bills before the legislature and voted upon.
OR send support from home if you cannot go on Lobby Day.
Email, write, or call your state Senator and Congressman, and ask them to co-sponsor the bills when they are submitted to the legislature. Also request they join the Medicare for All Caucus to get these bills passed.
You can locate your legislators at MALegislature.gov.
Sample Letter
Dear Representative or Senator,
I am writing as your constituent, asking you to co-sponsor the new House and Senate bills to implement a Medicare for All plan in Massachusetts. There is very strong public support for a single-payer health plan here, and I would like you to co-sponsor these bills. I ask you to join the Medicare for All Caucus to support these bills too.
Please work hard to implement a Medicare for All plan in our state. This would be a more comprehensive, universal healthcare financing plan that would provide better coverage, and save money too.
Thank you.