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Massachusetts Democrats
Endorse Single Payer in Platform
Date: August 3, 1999
The Massachusetts Democratic Party Action Agenda 2000 adopted the
following amendment to their platform:
"Health care is a right, not a privilege; a necessity not a luxury.
Therefore, we will work to make Massachusetts the first state in the nation to institute a single payer health care system that will provide
all of the residents of Massachusetts: first-class health care including
prescription drugs; free choice of doctor, nurse or other clinician; and
the power to make health decision with the clinician. There should be a
strong consumer voice in the publicly funded management and costs should
be controlled by cutting profit, paperwork and advertising and not by cutting care. We reaffirm our belief that a single payer health care
system is the only cost effective way to provide universal health care."
Bravo Massachusetts Democrats. Let's get a similar statement in the
Connecticut Democratic Platform for the year 2000.
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