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Jim Marzilli for Senate, 4th Middlesex

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Massachusetts is a great place to live, but we face serious problems. The state is finding it increasingly difficult to meet its financial obligation to cities and towns. Budgets have been slashed and basic services like education, police and fire protection have been compromised. Homeowners have been burdened with higher property taxes and user fees that are unaffordable for many and unacceptable for all. 

I have filed legislation this term that gets to the heart of some of our most pressing problems, including the cost and quality of health care, financing public services fairly and addressing the threat of climate change, including: 

  • A health care cost control bill, designed for consumers, that maintains access and quality and reduces the waste in our system; 

  • Shifting long-term care away from expensive institutions and towards more humane and cost-effective home care; 

  • Expanding the “circuit breaker” to reduce the property tax burden on families on fixed incomes; 

  • Closing corporate tax loopholes to increase revenues for state and local programs without burdening individuals and families; and 

  • The Energy, Climate and Economic Security Act that will reduce our dependence on expensive foreign fossil fuels in favor of conservation and renewable resources, and may be the most comprehensive climate change legislation in the US. 

    • Please help elect me to the state Senate, where I can do even more to advance a progressive agenda. 

    Jim Marzilli

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    1. But here's some free advice:

      Whatever you do, don't try to get an endorsement from BMG. They endorsed Eldridge and Flaherty and look how that turned out!

      Getting the BMG emdorsement is a kiss of death.

    3. So Jim, what are you going to do to have Massachusetts stave off fiscal disaster due to skyrocketing health care costs? And I mean *costs*, not just the premiums.

      Don't worry if you don't know, because no one else seems to have any idea either.

      • what can be done about costs, other than fairly draconian rationing?  High-tech care just costs a ton of money, and people want the highest tech care they can get.  Who decides who gets the newest, most expensive drugs or machines or gizmos, and who doesn’t?

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        Leaving aside, of course, the immense administrative savings that would result from going single-payer.

        • First, here is a listing of those endorsing a single-payer system:

          http://www.pnhp.org/links/organizations_endorsing_singlepayer.php 

          Medicare for all has very interesting profit charts regarding the private health insurers: 

          http://medicareforall.net/faqs.html

          American “Big Steel” supports single payer, stating that in Europe and other countries where the government pays for health insurance, industry can be more competitive:

          http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0318-08.htm

          The fact is, not having universal care has costs, too.  Is there a way to “ride the tiger” of providing medical care, without an exponential growth in costs?  If so, it is not private health insurance – nor is it unalloyed governmental single payor unless the structure has built in controls that reward cost containment in socially acceptable ways.  

           

           

           

           

    4. The Marzilli for Senate campaign kick-off is set for Sunday, September 23, from 4 – 6 PM, at the Arlington Sons of Italy, 19 Prentiss Road, across from the RCN office on Mass Ave. We will have live eclectic acoustic music with Arlington Feed & Grain, a few short speeches, a cash bar, and plenty of time to talk with your neighbors.

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      The Senate district includes all of Arlington, Billerica and Burlington, and most of Lexington and Woburn.

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      Bring family and friends, and feel free to forward this as you like.

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      Jim Marzilli for State Senate
      jim@marzilli.org
      http://www.marzilli.org
      781-641-2334

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