Ronald A. Gabel

Medicare for All

Medicare for All Legislative Bills
Massachusetts (Gabel) Massachusetts California Vermont
Name of bill Massachusetts Medicare for All Bill S.744 193rd (Current) An Act establishing medicare for all in Massachusetts AB-2200 Guaranteed Health Care for All. (2023-2024) No. 48. An act relating to a universal and unified health system. (H.202)
Also called CalCare Green Mountain Care
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https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=ht202320240AB2200 https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2012/Docs/ACTS/ACT048/ACT048%20As%20Enacted.pdf
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All residents would be covered Yes Yes Yes Yes
Automatic enrollment and re-enrollment Yes No - ""The Executive Director shall establish an enrollment system.
Yes - Automatic enrollment		 No - automatic enrollment only at birth
Single-payer Yes, the state Yes, the state Yes, the state Yes, the state
Funded by taxes Yes - specified in the bill Yes - specified in the bill Yes, via "Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 11 (January 05, 2022), a resolution to propose … an amendment to the Constitution [that] would impose an excise tax, payroll taxes, and a State Personal Income CalCare Tax at specified rates to fund comprehensive universal single-payer health care coverage " No - The bill is conceptual and provides no specifics regarding intended funding. The governor's 2014 decision not to pursue Green Mountain Care was based on his conclusion that financing the bill would not be feasible.
Funded by fed funds Yes - waivers would be sought from the federal government to divert funds, as to finance state-run Medicaid, to the trust financing the Massachusetts Medicare for All Trust. . Yes - waivers would be sought from the federal government to divert funds to finance state-run Medicaid to the CalCare Trust. Yes - waivers would be sought from the federal government to divert funds to finance state-run Medicaid to the Green Mountain Care Trust.
Drug formulary No - "The trust shall neither produce nor use a formulary because all prescription drugs shall be provided to beneficiaries without charge Yes - "The bill would provide the board with all the powers … establishing a prescription drug formulary" Yes - "feasibility of requesting a waiver from Medicare Part D in order to ensure Medicare participation in the formulary"
References How Vermont's single-payer health care dream fell apart (Vox Dec. 22, 2014)