Health Care Affordability Crisis Creates Momentum for Single-Payer System in Massachusetts
As the cost of health care skyrockets across the U.S., residents in many states are mobilizing to push their state governments to enact laws creating a single-payer system as a way of making health care more affordable for everyone. This movement is especially gaining traction in Massachusetts. Auden Cote-L’Heureux, an economics expert at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) at Amherst, says Americans pay a lot more for health care yet health outcomes are worse in the U.S. when compared to the stats from comparable countries. For example, he says Americans paid an average of almost $15,000 in 2024 for each…
