Press Release: 8/7/2026

Mass-Care Candidates Pledge 2026

Mass-Care Launches Candidates Webpage

 

The Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care (Mass-Care) has launched a webpage (https://masscare.org/legislation/2026-candidates/) that lists candidates who support An Act Establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts, with optional short statements explaining why. Legislative and Executive candidates use this form (https://forms.gle/1t5EYPv9YnP9ktZq5), pledging to support passage and to cosponsor the Act if elected to the Legislature. The page is in progress as Mass-Care continues to ask candidates to pledge support and to tell their supporters and other candidates that they pledged. Mass-Care encourages its activists to engage with these candidates to raise up the Act and work for its passage.

 

Note that the webpage is not intended to endorse any candidate for election.  Mass-Care urges every candidate to publicly support the Act and every legislative candidate to pledge to cosponsor the Act and work together to pass it.

 

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 a human right, basic to life and human dignity. 

 

An Act Establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts offers a new, simple, and efficient approach to paying for health care, saving billions of dollars and guaranteeing care for all. By creating the Massachusetts Health Care Trust, a single-payer public health insurance system, the bill replaces fragmented financing with unified budgeting, negotiated provider payments, and global cost controls.



Mass-Care's economists calculate current annual health care expenditures at $128.57 billion. The Massachusetts Health Care Trust would eliminate $54.53 billion of unnecessary spending, over 42% of current spending, by reducing burdensome billing expenses, administrative waste in the insurance industry, monopolistic pricing of drugs and medical devices and in hospitals, and fraud. About half of that savings, $24.67 billion, would be used to finance health care improvements: expanding coverage to the uninsured, removing barriers to access, and correcting the underpayment of Medicaid and Medicare services. The remaining savings, $29.87 billion, would be returned to the state economy: to individuals and families, employers, cities and towns, and the Commonwealth. In the first year alone, the proposed Act would bring down total health care costs from $128.57 billion to $98.7 billion, over 23% less than current spending. Please visit https://masscare.org/economic-analysis/. 

 

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