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Single-Payer Health Care Question On Some Ballots In Western Massachusetts

A "vote here" sign in English and Spanish on sidewalk
Paul Tuthill
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WAMC

            There are three questions on the election ballot statewide in Massachusetts this year.

In some parts of western Massachusetts voters will see a fourth question on their ballot. 

It seeks to record public support for a single-payer health care system in Massachusetts.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Deborah Levenson ofWestern Massachusetts Medicare for All, the organization sponsoring the ballot question.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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