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[Denver Dave]

Massachusetts - non-binding single-payer ballot question in 14 districts

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_16323409

PITTSFIELD -- Voters in the 2nd and 4th Districts will test the waters for single-payer health care in a ballot question in November 2010's elections.

According to Ben Day, executive director of the statewide advocacy group Mass-Care, the non-binding ballot question is meant to allow voters to "instruct their representative whether they should support a single-payer health care system."

"It doesn't have any impact on the law, but it gives something for representatives to listen to," said Day.

Question 4, which made it into 10 districts across the state in 2008, will be on 14 district ballots in 2010.

[Denver Dave]

11th Norfolk District - Question 4: Non-binding ballot measure pushes ‘Medicare For All’
http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/news/x102606675/Question-4-Non-binding-ballot-measure-pushes-Medicare-For-All

On the ballot Nov. 2 [2010] is Question 4, a non-binding question that asks voters in the 11th Norfolk District whether they want to instruct their state representative, Paul McMurtry, “to support legislation that would establish health care as a human right regardless of age, state of health or employment status, by creating a single-payer health insuranc