Press Release: 7/17/2025
An Act Establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts is the solution to federal cuts to health care.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kimberley Connors, Executive Director, Mass-Care, 617-297-8011, director@masscare.org
Mass-Care has issued the following statement:
The Act creates the Massachusetts Health Care Trust, a single payer public health insurance system for all Massachusetts residents. It is H.1405 in the House and S.860 in the Senate.
The Republican agenda (to continue giving the superrich super tax cuts) and the recent passage of the federal budget bill mean cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, Children’s Health Insurance (CHIP), and SNAP benefits (food stamps); privatizes Medicare and the VA; cuts funding of Community Health Centers; denies care to immigrants; attacks reproductive health care, gender-affirming care, and even vaccines. It will end minimum staffing levels in nursing homes; undermine health care research; withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO); and is led by an anti-vaxxer during a lethal measles outbreak.
In Massachusetts, 38% of people with health insurance receive it through Medicaid. The Republican cuts mean up to 300,000 people could lose their health care coverage and the state will lose $3.5 billion in federal funding, according to the Boston Globe (July 10, 2025).
Massachusetts will either have to accept the cuts, use the “Rainy Day” funds, raise taxes, or move money from other parts of the budget.
Or, it could save more than enough money with Medicare for All! Our latest economic analysis (https://masscare.org/economic-analysis/) estimates the savings under Massachusetts Medicare for All at over $37 billion a year (about 30% of current spending). Just the Trust Fund’s operating surplus (over $7.5 billion the first year) would cover the cuts.
We would expect that the current administration would not grant Massachusetts a “Medicare waiver” to use its funds for the Massachusetts Health Care Trust. But the Massachusetts Medicare for All legislation already covers this situation in which Medicare does not pay into the Trust. The bill provides for “Wraparound Coverage for Federal Health Programs,” paying for what Medicare does not.
Massachusetts Medicare for All secures democratic control over health care access and insurance in Massachusetts.
In Massachusetts we now have to convince the leaders of the Democratic Party in the legislature that providing full health care to all residents of Massachusetts is more important than protecting the profits of insurance companies.
Mass-Care joins with all who are fighting the administration’s slash-and-burn policies, especially around health care, public health, and the environment. We vigorously continue to promote single payer universal health care and the expansion of the public sector in those areas essential to our survival.
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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, with free choice of practitioners, because it is basic to life and human dignity. The Mass-Care Coalition is now over 100 organizations.
www.masscare.org / 617-297-8011 / info@masscare.org