The campaign to legalize adult marijuana use in Massachusetts announced endorsements Thursday from 10 state lawmakers, who said a ballot question's passage in the fall would generate new tax revenues and end marijuana prohibition laws that they called a failure.
"It's time we got this over with. The prohibition approach to the control of marijuana use just has not worked," Sen. Will Brownsberger of Belmont, co-chair of the Legislature's Judiciary Committee, said in a statement released by the Yes on 4 campaign.
MassHealth and Medicare each provided primary health insurance coverage for more than 1 million Massachusetts residents from December 2013 to March 2016, while around 4 million Bay Staters were covered by private commercial insurance, according to a new report from a state agency.
More than 160,000 of those covered by commercial insurance received subsidies, according to the July 2016 Enrollment Trends report from the Center for Health Information and Analysis. Enrollment in subsidized private commercial plans doubled from March 2015 to March 2016, "as Massachusetts residents increasingly purchased coverage through the Massachusetts Health Connector," the report said.
