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CommonHealth            Volume 2, Number 3 ~ Fall 2006
                                      Universal Health Care Education Fund


                                  New “Universal“ Health Bill Raises False Hopes
                                 Massachusetts Heath Care Trust Bill Being Refiled

Even as MASS-CARE members strive to monitor, critique             Without fundamental
and demythologize Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006, we              structural reforms, to cut
work to sharpen our single-payer, universal healthcare bill,      bureaucratic overhead and
                   the Massachusetts Health Care Trust,           achieve cost savings, each
                   for submission to the new legislative          and every one proved
                   session which begins in January. Our           unsustainable.
                   Legislative Committee has been meeting         (Pictured: Jane Hamill, Barbara
                   with our lead sponsors, Senator Steve          Ackermann, Ben Day and John
                                                                  Healey)
                   Tolman and Representative Frank
                   Hynes, as well as many other legislators
                   and activists from across the state.           In June, the MASS-CARE Coordinating Committee voted
                   MASS-CARE’s Legislative Committee,             to endorse the initiative to amend the Massachusetts
                   working hand-                                  constitution to make access to comprehensive, affordable
in-hand with our Coordinating                                     health insurance a right of all who reside here. Despite a
Committee, is in the final stages                                 passionate and clear-headed floor fight led by Senator
of updating our bill.                                             Steve Tolman, this citizens’ initiative was sent to a study
(Pictured: Ann Eldridge Malone, Alliance                          committee which has never met. But the fight goes on,
to Defend Health Care, and Susanne                                with the Constitutional Convention due back in session at
King, Berkshire MASS-CARE)                                        2 PM on January 2nd.

Our executive director Benjamin Day has created a
powerpoint presentation analyzing Chapter 58 and
comparing it to all prior state-based incremental reform
efforts, such as Hawai’i’s and Oregon’s. On enactment,
each plan was hailed as “universal,” each resulted in a
sharp drop in the number of uninsured initially, and each
failed to maintain that progress in subsequent years.




                                                                  Sen. Steve Tolman addresses a State House rally for the healthcare
                                                                  amendment in May. (State House News Service photo)



                                                                           Click on our web site to view or download
                                                                           our Chapter 58 powerpoint presentation.
                                                                           Contact us to make arrangements for
Members of the Legislative Committee strategize with Rep. Frank            a showing in your community.
Hynes: Vic Bloomberg, Judy Deutsch, Sandy Eaton, Ben Day, Leo
Stolbach, Rep. Hynes and Pat Downs Berger.
2006 Ben Gill Gala

Braving monsoon-like weather, single-payer supporters
came from across Massachusetts to the Dante Alighieri                                                    Executive director Benjamin Day
Cultural Center in Cambridge on May 13th for the MASS-                                                   watches as Arky Markham models
                                                                                                         her new single-payer cap. Arky,
CARE/UHCEF annual Dr. Benjamin Gill Awards Dinner.
                                                                                                         ninety years old at the time,
                                                                                                         continues her lifelong commitment
                                 Richard Sherman shared                                                  to peace and justice in the Pioneer
                                 personal insights and humorous                                          Valley, on the state level and
                                 moments from the life and times                                         globally.
                                 of Ben Gill, a retired psychiatrist
                                 who steadfastly championed
                                 fundamental healthcare reform
                                 through MASS-CARE and in the
                                 formative period of the Ad Hoc        Rand Wilson, co-chair at the time of the Jobs with
                                 Committee to Defend Health            Justice Health Care Action Committee, and Diane Dujon
                                 Care, now the Alliance to Defend
                                                                       of the UMass Boston School of Public Service were our
                                 Health Care.
                                                                       keynote speakers, helping us appreciate the connections
                                                                       involved in our work.
Peggy O’Malley, MASS-CARE chair emerita, and Alan
Sager and Debbie Socolar from the BU School of Public
                                                                       Award presenters were Barbara Ackermann, Steffi
Health’s Access and Affordability Project received
                                                                       Woolhandler and Sandy Eaton. Joseph Lillyman assembled
awards this year for their years of dedicated service,
                                                                       once again his talented quartet. Food was catered by the
combining theory and practice, in the fight for a just
                                                                       renowned S&S diner. But the special treat was the
healthcare system. A special surprise award was bestowed
                                                                       camaraderie of shared experiences in the struggle by all
on Katie Murphy, former chair of the Framingham Board
                                                                       present.
of Selectmen, for her valiant fight for health access and
adequate services for all in our community. (Alan Sager
                                                                       John Horgan of IBEW 2222 and
was unable to attend due to a very important prior                     Jobs with Justice confers with
commitment.)                                                           Kathleen Bridgewater of the
                                                                       Hampshire-Franklin Health Care
The Massachusetts Nurses                                               Coalition and Amherst League of
Association was well                                                   Women Voters. Both are active
represented by Donna Kelly-                                            with Healthcare-NOW! -
Williams, VP, Roz Feldberg,                                            building support for
staff researcher, and                                                  Representative John Conyers’
president Beth Piknick.                                                Medicare for All bill, HR.676.


                                                                                                  Rand Wilson, Working Families Party
                                                                                                  candidate for State Auditor, and Jill
                                                                                                  Stein, Green-Rainbow Party candidate
                                                                                                  for Secretary of State, brought
                                                                                                  enthusiastic bipartisan support to our
                                                                                                  single-payer celebration.




                                                                                     Save the date! 2007 Ben Gill Gala
                                                                                        Ryles Jazz Club, Cambridge
                                                                                       Saturday, March 24, 2-4 PM
Speakers and awardees: Debbie Socolar, Katie Murphy, Peggy                               Robert Kuttner, keynote
O’Malley, Rand Wilson, Steffi Woolhandler and Diane Dujon.
National Campaigns: HR.676 & HR.5864

On October 21st, a broad coalition led by Jon Weisman of              Ajamu Sankofa came to the
the National Association of Letter Carriers and Western               Holyoke hearing representing
                                                                      Healthcare-NOW! - the national
Massachusetts Jobs with Justice came together at
                                                                      movement dedicated to pushing
Holyoke Community College for a Congressional hearing on              Medicare for All until victory.
the healthcare crisis and to promote HR.676, the                      Information on this campaign may
Medicare for All bill with lead sponsors John Conyers,                be obtained from its web site:
Dennis Kucinich, Jim McDermott and Donna Christensen.                 http://www.healthcare-now.org.


US Representative John Olver presided. Former                         The United States National Health Insurance Act
Northampton mayor Mary Ford moderated. Three panels                   establishes an American-style national insurance program.
of presenters led off, one each on access, affordability              The bill would create a publicly-financed, privately-
and quality. Ample time was allowed for taking testimony              delivered health care program that uses the already
from those in attendance as well.                                     existing Medicare program by expanding and improving it
                                                                      to all US residents and all residents living in US
                                                                      territories. The goal of the legislation is to ensure that all
                                                                      Americans will have access, guaranteed by law, to the
                                                                      highest quality and cost-effective healthcare services
                                                                      regardless of one’s employment, income, or health care
                                                                      status.

                                                                      A parallel development is the introduction of HR.5864,
                                                                      the Health Partnership Through Creative Federalism Act,
                                                                      described by its author, Representative Tammy Baldwin
Bob Lawson, Massachusetts Senior Action Council treasurer, Patricia   (D-WI), as “a serious, bipartisan effort to break the
Healey, MNA Region 1 president, and moderator Mary Ford               logjam in Congress and develop plans to ensure health care
                                                                      coverage for all.” Co-sponsors include Representative Tom
Lively discussions marked this event, with several                    Price (R-GA), Representative John Tierney (D-MA) and
participants coming to the mike to offer their                        Representative Bob Beauprez (R-CO). “We believe the
experiences with health care in other countries, where                federal government should be helping the states as they
health care is considered a right and not a commodity.                try new approaches, not hindering them. ... Our plan would
                                                                      allow the potential for freedom from certain federal
                      Frank Olbris, chair of the Franklin-Hampshire   regulations and authorizes grants to individual states, or
                      Health Care Coalition, offers testimony in      groups or portions of states, to enact the strategy best
                      Holyoke.
                                                                      suited for them to ensure greater health insurance
                                                                      coverage.”
                   HR.676 now has a total of seventy-
                   eight congressional sponsors. Two
                                                                      Maybe Massachusetts activists will set a goal of getting
                   hundred and twelve union organizations
                                                                      our delegation on board with this one.
                   have passed resolutions of support,
                   including fifty-three Central Labor
                   Councils and Area Labor Federations
and seventeen state AFL-CIOs (KY, PA, CT, OH, DE, ND,
WA, SC, WY, VT, FL, WI, WV, SD, NC, MO and MN).
Grassroots pressure for change is mounting.

All of Massachusetts’ representatives in Congress have
signed on to this critical piece of legislation except Ed
Markey, who supports an alternate version proposed by
Senator Ted Kennedy, and Richard Neal. We still have our
work cut out for us in Massachusetts.
Cape Care                                and presented single payer as the only way to go. Mel King
                                                                   spoke, linking our struggle to a broader context, pointing
MASS-CARE’s August statewide meeting took place in the             out the health needs of poorer communities, such as the
Provincetown Public Library. Folks came from near and              one targeted for the BU bioterror lab.
far, by boat and car, to discuss the amazing grassroots
upsurge called Cape Care, an attempt to craft a universal,         Marcia Angell, editor emerita of
                                                                   the New England Journal of
single-payer system in a single county. The overwhelming
                                                                   Medicine, Carlos Da Silva of the
majority of towns on the Cape have endorsed this                   Massachusetts Association of
approach, either through town meeting or town council,             Portuguese Speakers and
with discussion now centered on the county government.             MASS-CARE executive
Since then, the Cape Care Coalition has voted to join              director Ben Day participate in
                                                                   the discussions.
MASS-CARE, and of course MASS-CARE has agreed. To
find out more about Cape Care as it evolves, go to its web
                                                                   Mel cited Alice Walker quoting Albert Einstein on the
site http://www.capecare.info.
                                                                   inability of those who created a crisis to solve it. Arnold
                                                                   Relman countered with the point that physicians, with the
                                                                   power to spend large sums of money, both contribute to
                                                                   the problem and need to be called upon to help solve it.
                                                                   Mel quietly observed that he was only quoting Einstein.
                                                                   Mel, the only African-American in the room, also observed
                                                                   that the composition of our movement does not include a
                                                                   lot of the folks most severely impacted by poor health
                                                                   care.

                                                                   Ben was called upon to present the print version of his
                                                                   powerful powerpoint presentation. He graciously skipped
                                                                   through most of them, stopping to highlight some
                                                                   especially useful information. This material is dynamite,
                                                                   and puts all our arguments into a solid context. No one
Provincetown participants: Brian O’Malley, Ben Day, Pat Downs      seemed in a great hurry to leave!
Berger, Joseph Lillyman, Frank Olbris, Vic Bloomberg and Cynthia
Franklin.
                                                                   Arnold Relman, Leo Stolbach,
                                                                   Jackie Wolf and Jerome
  MASS-CARE Advisory Board Reinvigorated                           Grossman follow Ben Day’s
                                                                   presentation of the Chapter 58
Shortly after the MASS-CARE coalition came together,               powerpoint text.

its leaders created a group of knowledgeable people they
could turn to as they sought to guide the health care trust
bill through the shoals of the legislative process. Although
a few individuals were regularly tapped for help, this
Advisory Board remained underutilized until recently.                (Photos by CommonHealth editor Sandy Eaton unless otherwise noted.)
From a list of nineteen prominent names on paper, this
body has grown in recent weeks to several score
individuals, some of whom were on the original list, but
most of whom were found more recently to be eager to                     Universal Health Care Education Fund (UHCEF)
participate in our work, bringing their expertise and                                   c/o MASS-CARE
reputations to bear on the building of our movement.                               8 Beacon Street, Suite 26
                                                                                        Boston, MA 02108
The first gathering of this body took place on November                                  P: 617-723-7001
29th in the historic Amy Lowell House in Brookline, where                                F: 617-723-7002
twenty five people from across the Commonwealth                                        info@masscare.org
assembled. After a lengthy round of self-introductions,                                 www.masscare.org
Marcia Angell exposed the business model of health care

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CommonHealth Newsletter - Fall 2006

  • 1. CommonHealth Volume 2, Number 3 ~ Fall 2006 Universal Health Care Education Fund New “Universal“ Health Bill Raises False Hopes Massachusetts Heath Care Trust Bill Being Refiled Even as MASS-CARE members strive to monitor, critique Without fundamental and demythologize Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006, we structural reforms, to cut work to sharpen our single-payer, universal healthcare bill, bureaucratic overhead and the Massachusetts Health Care Trust, achieve cost savings, each for submission to the new legislative and every one proved session which begins in January. Our unsustainable. Legislative Committee has been meeting (Pictured: Jane Hamill, Barbara with our lead sponsors, Senator Steve Ackermann, Ben Day and John Healey) Tolman and Representative Frank Hynes, as well as many other legislators and activists from across the state. In June, the MASS-CARE Coordinating Committee voted MASS-CARE’s Legislative Committee, to endorse the initiative to amend the Massachusetts working hand- constitution to make access to comprehensive, affordable in-hand with our Coordinating health insurance a right of all who reside here. Despite a Committee, is in the final stages passionate and clear-headed floor fight led by Senator of updating our bill. Steve Tolman, this citizens’ initiative was sent to a study (Pictured: Ann Eldridge Malone, Alliance committee which has never met. But the fight goes on, to Defend Health Care, and Susanne with the Constitutional Convention due back in session at King, Berkshire MASS-CARE) 2 PM on January 2nd. Our executive director Benjamin Day has created a powerpoint presentation analyzing Chapter 58 and comparing it to all prior state-based incremental reform efforts, such as Hawai’i’s and Oregon’s. On enactment, each plan was hailed as “universal,” each resulted in a sharp drop in the number of uninsured initially, and each failed to maintain that progress in subsequent years. Sen. Steve Tolman addresses a State House rally for the healthcare amendment in May. (State House News Service photo) Click on our web site to view or download our Chapter 58 powerpoint presentation. Contact us to make arrangements for Members of the Legislative Committee strategize with Rep. Frank a showing in your community. Hynes: Vic Bloomberg, Judy Deutsch, Sandy Eaton, Ben Day, Leo Stolbach, Rep. Hynes and Pat Downs Berger.
  • 2. 2006 Ben Gill Gala Braving monsoon-like weather, single-payer supporters came from across Massachusetts to the Dante Alighieri Executive director Benjamin Day Cultural Center in Cambridge on May 13th for the MASS- watches as Arky Markham models her new single-payer cap. Arky, CARE/UHCEF annual Dr. Benjamin Gill Awards Dinner. ninety years old at the time, continues her lifelong commitment Richard Sherman shared to peace and justice in the Pioneer personal insights and humorous Valley, on the state level and moments from the life and times globally. of Ben Gill, a retired psychiatrist who steadfastly championed fundamental healthcare reform through MASS-CARE and in the formative period of the Ad Hoc Rand Wilson, co-chair at the time of the Jobs with Committee to Defend Health Justice Health Care Action Committee, and Diane Dujon Care, now the Alliance to Defend of the UMass Boston School of Public Service were our Health Care. keynote speakers, helping us appreciate the connections involved in our work. Peggy O’Malley, MASS-CARE chair emerita, and Alan Sager and Debbie Socolar from the BU School of Public Award presenters were Barbara Ackermann, Steffi Health’s Access and Affordability Project received Woolhandler and Sandy Eaton. Joseph Lillyman assembled awards this year for their years of dedicated service, once again his talented quartet. Food was catered by the combining theory and practice, in the fight for a just renowned S&S diner. But the special treat was the healthcare system. A special surprise award was bestowed camaraderie of shared experiences in the struggle by all on Katie Murphy, former chair of the Framingham Board present. of Selectmen, for her valiant fight for health access and adequate services for all in our community. (Alan Sager John Horgan of IBEW 2222 and was unable to attend due to a very important prior Jobs with Justice confers with commitment.) Kathleen Bridgewater of the Hampshire-Franklin Health Care The Massachusetts Nurses Coalition and Amherst League of Association was well Women Voters. Both are active represented by Donna Kelly- with Healthcare-NOW! - Williams, VP, Roz Feldberg, building support for staff researcher, and Representative John Conyers’ president Beth Piknick. Medicare for All bill, HR.676. Rand Wilson, Working Families Party candidate for State Auditor, and Jill Stein, Green-Rainbow Party candidate for Secretary of State, brought enthusiastic bipartisan support to our single-payer celebration. Save the date! 2007 Ben Gill Gala Ryles Jazz Club, Cambridge Saturday, March 24, 2-4 PM Speakers and awardees: Debbie Socolar, Katie Murphy, Peggy Robert Kuttner, keynote O’Malley, Rand Wilson, Steffi Woolhandler and Diane Dujon.
  • 3. National Campaigns: HR.676 & HR.5864 On October 21st, a broad coalition led by Jon Weisman of Ajamu Sankofa came to the the National Association of Letter Carriers and Western Holyoke hearing representing Healthcare-NOW! - the national Massachusetts Jobs with Justice came together at movement dedicated to pushing Holyoke Community College for a Congressional hearing on Medicare for All until victory. the healthcare crisis and to promote HR.676, the Information on this campaign may Medicare for All bill with lead sponsors John Conyers, be obtained from its web site: Dennis Kucinich, Jim McDermott and Donna Christensen. http://www.healthcare-now.org. US Representative John Olver presided. Former The United States National Health Insurance Act Northampton mayor Mary Ford moderated. Three panels establishes an American-style national insurance program. of presenters led off, one each on access, affordability The bill would create a publicly-financed, privately- and quality. Ample time was allowed for taking testimony delivered health care program that uses the already from those in attendance as well. existing Medicare program by expanding and improving it to all US residents and all residents living in US territories. The goal of the legislation is to ensure that all Americans will have access, guaranteed by law, to the highest quality and cost-effective healthcare services regardless of one’s employment, income, or health care status. A parallel development is the introduction of HR.5864, the Health Partnership Through Creative Federalism Act, described by its author, Representative Tammy Baldwin Bob Lawson, Massachusetts Senior Action Council treasurer, Patricia (D-WI), as “a serious, bipartisan effort to break the Healey, MNA Region 1 president, and moderator Mary Ford logjam in Congress and develop plans to ensure health care coverage for all.” Co-sponsors include Representative Tom Lively discussions marked this event, with several Price (R-GA), Representative John Tierney (D-MA) and participants coming to the mike to offer their Representative Bob Beauprez (R-CO). “We believe the experiences with health care in other countries, where federal government should be helping the states as they health care is considered a right and not a commodity. try new approaches, not hindering them. ... Our plan would allow the potential for freedom from certain federal Frank Olbris, chair of the Franklin-Hampshire regulations and authorizes grants to individual states, or Health Care Coalition, offers testimony in groups or portions of states, to enact the strategy best Holyoke. suited for them to ensure greater health insurance coverage.” HR.676 now has a total of seventy- eight congressional sponsors. Two Maybe Massachusetts activists will set a goal of getting hundred and twelve union organizations our delegation on board with this one. have passed resolutions of support, including fifty-three Central Labor Councils and Area Labor Federations and seventeen state AFL-CIOs (KY, PA, CT, OH, DE, ND, WA, SC, WY, VT, FL, WI, WV, SD, NC, MO and MN). Grassroots pressure for change is mounting. All of Massachusetts’ representatives in Congress have signed on to this critical piece of legislation except Ed Markey, who supports an alternate version proposed by Senator Ted Kennedy, and Richard Neal. We still have our work cut out for us in Massachusetts.
  • 4. Cape Care and presented single payer as the only way to go. Mel King spoke, linking our struggle to a broader context, pointing MASS-CARE’s August statewide meeting took place in the out the health needs of poorer communities, such as the Provincetown Public Library. Folks came from near and one targeted for the BU bioterror lab. far, by boat and car, to discuss the amazing grassroots upsurge called Cape Care, an attempt to craft a universal, Marcia Angell, editor emerita of the New England Journal of single-payer system in a single county. The overwhelming Medicine, Carlos Da Silva of the majority of towns on the Cape have endorsed this Massachusetts Association of approach, either through town meeting or town council, Portuguese Speakers and with discussion now centered on the county government. MASS-CARE executive Since then, the Cape Care Coalition has voted to join director Ben Day participate in the discussions. MASS-CARE, and of course MASS-CARE has agreed. To find out more about Cape Care as it evolves, go to its web Mel cited Alice Walker quoting Albert Einstein on the site http://www.capecare.info. inability of those who created a crisis to solve it. Arnold Relman countered with the point that physicians, with the power to spend large sums of money, both contribute to the problem and need to be called upon to help solve it. Mel quietly observed that he was only quoting Einstein. Mel, the only African-American in the room, also observed that the composition of our movement does not include a lot of the folks most severely impacted by poor health care. Ben was called upon to present the print version of his powerful powerpoint presentation. He graciously skipped through most of them, stopping to highlight some especially useful information. This material is dynamite, and puts all our arguments into a solid context. No one Provincetown participants: Brian O’Malley, Ben Day, Pat Downs seemed in a great hurry to leave! Berger, Joseph Lillyman, Frank Olbris, Vic Bloomberg and Cynthia Franklin. Arnold Relman, Leo Stolbach, Jackie Wolf and Jerome MASS-CARE Advisory Board Reinvigorated Grossman follow Ben Day’s presentation of the Chapter 58 Shortly after the MASS-CARE coalition came together, powerpoint text. its leaders created a group of knowledgeable people they could turn to as they sought to guide the health care trust bill through the shoals of the legislative process. Although a few individuals were regularly tapped for help, this Advisory Board remained underutilized until recently. (Photos by CommonHealth editor Sandy Eaton unless otherwise noted.) From a list of nineteen prominent names on paper, this body has grown in recent weeks to several score individuals, some of whom were on the original list, but most of whom were found more recently to be eager to Universal Health Care Education Fund (UHCEF) participate in our work, bringing their expertise and c/o MASS-CARE reputations to bear on the building of our movement. 8 Beacon Street, Suite 26 Boston, MA 02108 The first gathering of this body took place on November P: 617-723-7001 29th in the historic Amy Lowell House in Brookline, where F: 617-723-7002 twenty five people from across the Commonwealth info@masscare.org assembled. After a lengthy round of self-introductions, www.masscare.org Marcia Angell exposed the business model of health care