Maura Healey on Civil Rights

	Maura Healey on Civil Rights

Include health equity as part of Health Care Cost Trends

Maura is focused on addressing the affordability crisis and promoting health equity, while maintaining the highest quality of care. Last year, her office released a robust report on racial inequity in health with recommendations in key areas to move toward racial justice in health care. As Governor, Maura will build on that vision to ensure we have a system that serves every community. This includes:

Requiring health care providers and insurance carriers to improve the collection and reporting of patient race, ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics.
Including health equity as part of the state's Annual Health Care Cost Trends Hearing to measure the state's progress towards identified equity benchmarks.
Ensuring that anti-racist, cultural humility, and implicit bias training is required of all licensed providers.

Source: 2022 Massachusetts Governor campaign website MauraHealey.com , Jun 7, 2022

End the ban on LGBTQ+ blood donations

Banning the LGBTQ+ panic defense, which is a legal strategy that allows a defendant to claim a victim's sexual orientation or gender identity/expression is to blame for their crime.
Streamlining the process of co-parent adoption.
Supporting comprehensive, LGBTQ-inclusive, consent-focused, and medically accurate sex education.
Ending the ban on LGBTQ+ blood donations.
Advocating for passage of the Equality Act at the federal level.

Source: 2022 Massachusetts Governor campaign website MauraHealey.com , Jun 7, 2022

We put an equity lens on everything that we do

One thing I'm most proud of as attorney general is we put an equity lens on everything that we do. Everything that runs through the office--whether it's consumer work, financial services or the environment, health care--everything is looked at through an equity lens. Source: WBUR (NPR Radio) on 2022 Massachusetts Gubernatorial race , Feb 3, 2022

Was lead counsel challenging Defense of Marriage Act

Healey served as the lead counsel in Massachusetts v. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. In that case, the commonwealth challenged the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which limited marriage to one man and one woman and was signed into law in 1996. Healey argued that by denying benefits like Social Security to same-sex couples who'd been legally marrying in Massachusetts since 2004, the federal government was encroaching on state authority. Source: WGBH (NPR Radio) on 2022 Massachusetts Gubernatorial race , Feb 3, 2022

The first openly gay state attorney general in U.S. history

Back in 2014, when she first ran, her primary opponent, Warren Tolman, was a former state legislator and one-time gubernatorial candidate who enjoyed strong support from the Democratic establishment. Healey crushed Tolman, 62% to 38%, buoyed by aggressive retail campaigning [and] enthusiastic support from LGBTQ voters. In the general election, Healey routed Republican John Miller by the exact same margin, becoming the first openly gay state attorney general in U.S. history. Source: WGBH (NPR Radio) on 2022 Massachusetts Gubernatorial race , Feb 3, 2022

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