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File #: 209930    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 3/24/2020 In control: City Council
On agenda: 3/26/2020 Final action: 3/11/2021
Enactment date: 3/26/2020 Enactment #: 209930
Title: That this Council urges Governor Baker to enact a single-payer health insurance system during this pandemic to reduce the bureaucracy for Covid-19 testing and treatment, and to make such testing and treatment free to those without health insurance.
Sponsors: Wilfred N. Mbah

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That this Council urges Governor Baker to enact a single-payer health insurance system during this pandemic to reduce the bureaucracy for Covid-19 testing and treatment, and to make such testing and treatment free to those without health insurance.

 

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That the Somerville City Council urges Governor Baker to use his past experience in the healthcare industry to collapse the entire healthcare system in Massachusetts into a single payer system during this pandemic in order to reduce the bureaucratic insurance process involved just for people to get tested and treated for COVID-19, and to make testing and treatment free to those without health insurance to limit the spread of this dangerous virus in our communities.