For legislation to ensure effective health care cost control. Health Care Financing. The center for health information and analysis shall recommend a methodology to develop a single payer benchmark. The center for health information and analysis, in conjunction with the health policy commission and the division of insurance, shall provide an annual report detailing a comparison of the actual health care expenditures in the commonwealth for 2018, 2019 and 2020 with the single payer benchmark for 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively, indicating whether the commonwealth would have saved money while expanding access to care under a single payer health care system.