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Fw: Boston City Council Resolution Passed Unanimously!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Dennis)
Thu Jun 28 13:31:01 2001
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From: "Gregory Dennis" <gdennis@MIT.EDU>
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:31:18 -0400
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MassCare is an organization vying to enact universal single-payer healthcare
in massachusetts. As it says below, they won a big victory yesterday. If
you'd like to know more about their efforts, check out www.masscare.org.
----- Original Message -----
From: MASSCARE2@aol.com
To: MASSCARE2@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:44 PM
Subject: Boston City Council Resolution Passed Unanimously!
!!!! GREAT NEWS !!!!
On June 27, 2001, the Boston City Council passed unanimously a resolution
that "... urges the State Legislature to enact the Massachusetts Health Care
Trust legislation in order to provide availability and affordability of
health care for all Massachusetts citizens." Other cities and towns that
have passed a resolution endorsing single payer health care are Brookline,
Cambridge, Northampton, Amherst, Newton, Leverett, Hawley, Greenfield,
Adams,
Hancock, Windsor, and Lee.
The resolution was initiated by MASS-CARE member Catherine DeLorey, who,
along with member Art Mazur, met with Councilors Ross and Flaherty. Several
of our Boston members also called and/or email City Councilors to ask them
to
support the resolution. Ross and Flaherty had intended to ask the City
Council to send it to an appropriate committee but, because of so much
support, the City Council decided to go ahead and pass the resolution.
See what one member can do. You could also do it in your town or city.
RESOLUTION OF CITY COUNCILORS MICHAEL ROSS, MICHAEL FLAHERTY, FRANCIS
ROACHE,
BRIAN HONAN, CHUCK TURNER, STEPHEN MURPHY, MAURA HENNIGAN, PAUL SCAPICCHIO
WHEREAS: The Massachusetts Health Care Trust bill (H. 2165/S. 599),
creating a single payer public entity to provide complete health care
coverage to every resident of the Commonwealth, has been introduced in
the Massachusetts State Legislature; and
WHEREAS: The number of Massachusetts citizens without health insurance
has doubled between 1987 and 1997 to over 600,000 residents,
approximately an equal number have inadequate health insurance, and
Massachusetts leads the nation in cost of health spending per person;
and
WHEREAS: The Massachusetts Health Care Trust bill would consolidate
administrative costs and more effectively allocate health care
resources, thus reducing the overall cost of providing health care to
all Massachusetts citizens; and
WHEREAS: The Massachusetts Health Care Trust bill would appropriately
allow doctors and their patients to make health care decisions based
primarily on the needs of the patient, and would end the current system
of having decisions made by insurance industry executives based
primarily on cost; Therefore Be It
RESOLVED: That the Boston City Council urges the State Legislature to
enact the Massachusetts Health Care Trust legislation in order to
provide availability and affordability of health care for all
Massachusetts citizens.
