MHQP Helps Push for Primary Care Task Force Legislation

(July 2024)

In July, as the Massachusetts Legislature neared the end of its session, MHQP leaders helped push for draft legislation that would establish a Primary Care Task Force in Massachusetts. This Task Force would help lead the Commonwealth out of its current primary care crisis by studying primary care access, delivery and payment, and issuing recommendations over the next year to stabilize and strengthen the primary care system and the primary care workforce in the state.

133 Massachusetts health care stakeholders and leaders sent a letter to leaders of the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives serving on the conference committee focused on the legislation, pressing for action on Section 116 of the Senate Healthcare bill (S. 2881) in the legislative session which concluded at the end of July.

Click HERE to read the full letter with the names of the leaders who supported this legislation.

Unfortunately, the proposed legislation did not pass in the recently concluded legislative session, but we remain hopeful the primary care task force will regain momentum this fall. MHQP would like to thank State Senator Cindy Friedman for her proactive leadership on this bill.