Massachusetts
As seen below, Massachusetts’ citizens very strongly want their health care law replaced. The MA law ("Romneycare") was implemented in that state in 2006. Romneycare is the state version of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 ("Obamacare") that is being implemented in 2010 through 2018 with the bulk of its provisions implemented in 2014 and at least a few major provisions not being implemented until 2018.
255,213 Americans in Massachusetts
(67% of 381,352 Americans)
vote YES in support of single-payer health care,
Improved Medicare for All
The ballot question, as worded in 2010, when the words "like Medicare" were added: “Shall the representative from this district be instructed to support legislation that would establish health care as a human right regardless of age, state of health or employment status, by creating a single payer health insurance system like Medicare that is comprehensive, cost effective, and publicly provided to all residents of Massachusetts?” (Bolding was added.)
More: about the Massachusetts law
More about the citizen opposition to the MA law.
State Rep. District
Election
Yes
No
Yes %
1st Barnstable 2008 See source documents below. 68.2% 4th Barnstable 2008 See source documents below. 71.5% 2nd Berkshire 2010 See source documents below. 69.5% 4th Berkshire 2010 See source documents below. 72.7% Bankstable, Dukes and Nantucket 2008 See source documents below. 73.5% 1st Franklin 2010 See source documents below. 72.3% 2nd Franklin 2008 See source documents below. 75.0% 8th Hampden 2010 See source documents below. 59.0% 1st Hampshire 2008 See source documents below. 80.1% 3rd Hampshire 2008 See source documents below. 81.7% 4th Middlesex 2010 See source documents below. 54.0% 5th Middlesex 2008 See source documents below. 65.5% 12th Middlesex 2008 See source documents below. 72.5% 13th Middlesex 2010 See source documents below. 57.5% 14th Middlesex 2010 See source documents below. 58.8% 29th Middlesex 2010 See source documents below. 70.3% 5th Norfolk 2010 See source documents below. 53.1% 11th Norfolk 2010 See source documents below. 52.7% 12th Norfolk 2010 See source documents below. 52.7% 4th Plymouth 2008 See source documents below. 65.7% 10th Suffolk 2008 See source documents below. 67.4% 11th Suffolk 2010 See source documents below. 68.8% 15th Suffolk 2010 See source documents below. 76.1% 13th Worcester 2010 See source documents below. 57.7% Total votes = 381,352
Yes and No votes:
Yes Votes
255,213No Votes
126,13967% Yes
out of 381,352
total votes
About the voting over time. So far, 24 districts out of 160 state districts have been asked about "single payer health insurance system" via ballot voting.
Bad Massachusetts Health Care Law
… does not compare well and does not perform well
compared to Improved Medicare for All
The Massachusetts health care law.
Part 1: Comparison of Massachussets’ law to two alternatives:
the U.S. Law and Improved Medicare for All
Part 2: More information via media articles
Source Documents
Go here (pdf) for the 2008 election; see page 53 (page 56 via Adobe Acrobat).
Go here (pdf) for the 2010 election; see page 64 (page 65 via Adobe Acrobat).If you have any difficulty accessing a pdf file, please see instructions below.
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Strong Opposition to
the national version of the Massachusetts Law
Life-long Democrats helped Scott Brown win
as part of the hatred of a mandate to purchase health insurance.
How much do the citizens of Massachusetts dislike their health care law?
Enough that life-long Democrats worked very hard to replace the former seat of Democratic U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy with Republican U.S. Senator Scott Brown.
Why? Because the Affordable Care Act of 2010, often called Obama’s health care law, is largely based on the Massachusetts law, which is a health insurance mandate to purchase private health insurance. The citizens of Massachusetts wanted to make a contribution to stopping the Affordable Care Act of 2010 from becoming law.
See the Reuters article by Trudy Lieberman for more about this topic.
We do not want mandated insurance and
forced assignments of insurance on individual Americans.We want the peace of mind
of having no major medical bills.
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