They have formed a group called Mass-Care . There are 15 Senators on Beacon Hill who support the proposal and 49 Representatives in the House. They claim that the Senate President has indicated his support. This has been done very quietly so far.
Consumers appear to have little knowledge of the effort.
It is similar to the failed attempt by Bill Clinton in 1994 to put the federal government in charge of hospitals and doctors. The matter surfaced briefly at the end of April when Alan Sager, a professor at Boston University School of Public Health, and three of his colleagues published an article in The Boston Globe detailing the plans for a single-payer health care system in Massachusetts. The crucial question as to who would be in charge of all of this money and how it would be spent has not been determined, according to Sager. Michael Tanner, the director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, wonders who is worrying about the consumers. He explains there would be two ways of doing this.