The Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care (MASS-CARE) will hold a community forum — Understanding Single-Payer Healthcare for Massachusetts — on April 10 at 7PM at American Legion Post #440 (295 California Street, Nonantum). See flyer.
The forum will discuss a bill in the Massachusetts legislature, An Act Establishing Medicare for All in Massachusetts, which would establish single-payer healthcare in Massachusetts.
Newton City Councilor at Large Alison Leary will host the forum, and keynote speakers include:
- Donald Berwick M.D., MPP, FRCP, gubernatorial candidate, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama, founder and former Executive Director of The Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Gordon Schiff, M.D., Quality and Safety Director for the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
- Kimberley Connors, Executive Director of Mass-Care — Massachusetts Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care
The forum is sponsored by Mass-Care 10th Middlesex, Progressive Watertown, Law Office of Kenneth Ormes, Our Revolution MA, Our Revolution Newton/Waltham/Watertown, Mass Nurses Association, Leo’s Diner, Boston DSA, Newton Medicare for All, Watertown DTC, Waltham, League of Women Voters Newton, and Our Bodies Ourselves.
