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Health committee recommends endorsement of Massachusetts healthcare‑trust resolution; delegates cite county savings
Summary
The Cape Cod Regional Government Assembly’s Health & Human Services standing committee voted 5–0 to recommend Resolution 2025‑13 — endorsing legislation to create a Massachusetts Healthcare Trust (a ‘Medicare for All’ model) — after hearing testimony that estimated roughly $2.5 million in county savings and about $60 million in municipal savings.
The Cape Cod Regional Government Assembly of Delegates’ standing committee on Health and Human Services voted to recommend Resolution 2025‑13 to the full assembly, a measure endorsing legislation to establish a Massachusetts Healthcare Trust intended to extend comprehensive, no‑cost at‑point‑of‑service coverage to all state residents.
Chair O’Malley described the proposal — commonly called "Medicare for All for Massachusetts" in the meeting — as a trust established to provide coverage for primary care, preventive care, vision, dental, hearing, all mental‑health services and long‑term care without co‑pays. O’Malley said municipal surveys using…
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