Single Payer Health Care Senate #277

Vote Description

This is amendment #2 to bill, S.2202. This amendment calls for a cost study of single payer health care in Massachusetts. If the study shows that a single payer implementation would save the state money, they shall submit a proposed single payer health care implementation plan within 1 year of the date that the report is filed.

Mass Fiscal Explanation

Mass Fiscal supports a no vote on this amendment due to its potential to move forward a single payer health care system in Massachusetts which would have devastating long term effects.

Mass Fiscal's Stance

Fiscal Responsibility Vote

Good Government Vote

Vote result on 11/09/2017

PASSED

Yea
35

Nay
3

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Michael BarrettThird Middlesex 1%
Joe BoncoreFirst Suffolk and Middlesex 1%
Michael Brady2nd Plymouth and Bristol 2%
William N. BrownsbergerSecond Suffolk and Middlesex 1%
Harriette L. ChandlerFirst Worcester 1%
Sonia Chang-DiazSecond Suffolk 44%
Cynthia Stone CreemFirst Middlesex and Norfolk 2%
Julian CyrCape and Islands 1%
Viriato Manuel deMacedoPlymouth and Barnstable 65%
Sal N. DiDomenicoMiddlesex and Suffolk 1%
Eileen DonoghueFirst Middlesex 2%
James B. EldridgeMiddlesex and Worcester 3%
Ryan C. FattmanWorcester and Norfolk 74%
Paul R FeeneyBristol and Norfolk 3%
Linda Dorcena ForryFirst Suffolk 2%
Cindy FriedmanFourth Middlesex 0%
Anne M. GobiWorcester, Hampden, Hampshire, and Middlesex 4%
Adam G. HindsBerkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden 2%
Donald F. HumasonSecond Hampden and Hampshire 60%
Kathleen O'Connor IvesFirst Essex 4%
Patricia D. JehlenSecond Middlesex 2%
John F. KeenanNorfolk and Plymouth 1%
Barbara L'ItalienSecond Essex and Middlesex 2%
Eric P. LesserFirst Hampden and Hampshire 1%
Jason M. LewisFifth Middlesex 1%
Joan B. LovelySecond Essex 2%
Thomas M. McGeeThird Essex 3%
Mark C. MontignySecond Bristol and Plymouth 4%
Michael O. MooreSecond Worcester 3%
Patrick O'ConnorPlymouth and Norfolk 40%
Marc R. PachecoFirst Plymouth and Bristol 2%
Michael J. RodriguesFirst Bristol and Plymouth 2%
Stanley C. RosenbergHampshire, Franklin and Worcester 0%
Richard J. RossNorfolk, Bristol and Middlesex 47%
Michael F. RushNorfolk and Suffolk 2%
Karen SpilkaSecond Middlesex and Norfolk 1%
Bruce E. TarrFirst Essex and Middlesex 57%
Walter F. TimiltyNorfolk, Bristol and Plymouth 4%
James T. WelchHampden 2%