Maura Healey in Gubernatorial campaign websites

On Abortion: Ensure access to abortion, contraception, STI testing

• Ensuring every Massachusetts resident can access quality affordable health care, including abortion care, contraception, STI testing and treatment, and gender-affirming care.
• Supporting comprehensive, LGBTQ-inclusive, consent-focused, and medically accurate sex education.
• Fulfilling the recommendations of the Massachusetts Racial Inequities in Maternal Health Commission and advancing legislation to address racial disparities in maternal health outcomes.

On Budget & Economy: Encourage entrepreneurism with Office of Economic Assistance

• Promote and expand Early College efforts, providing more young people with post-secondary success.
• Encourage entrepreneurism, especially for women and people of color by creating an Office of Economic Assistance to advise and assist in developing business plans, facilitate regulatory compliance, and help people access needed capital and borrowing.
• Partner with labor and industry to create pathways to meaningful opportunities and steady careers in important sectors.

On Civil Rights: Include health equity as part of Health Care Cost Trends

• 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.

On Civil Rights: 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.

On Corporations: Allow communities to enact local rent stabilization policies

• Expanding and preserving housing supply through increasing state resources, addressing local zoning barriers, and protecting 40B.
• Increasing first-time homeownership and helping close the racial wealth gap through expansion of down payment assistance and housing counseling.
• Combating homelessness through expansion of permanent, supportive housing.
• Empowering communities to enact local rent stabilization policies.

On Crime: Supported 2020 reform bill repealing mandatory minimums

On Education: Opposed ballot measure expanding number of charter schools

On Energy & Oil: Create a cabinet-level Climate Chief & electrify everything

Maura will reinvigorate the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (CEC) to spur clean tech job growth. With its strong relationships in the private sector and with our world-class academic institutions, the CEC has helped boost the clean energy sector in Massachusetts, which has grown 68% since 2010, with over 100,000 people employed as of 2021.

In the next two decades, we need to electrify everything--including our buildings and transportation system. We can do this. Our state is home to industrious & innovative workers who can lead this swift transition. Doing so will create jobs, improve public health, & strengthen our economy.

On Families & Children: Common Start: free child care for lowest-income families

On Government Reform: Pass VOTES Act; same day voter registration

• Protecting the integrity of our democracy and expanding access to it have been top priorities for Maura. As Governor, she will focus on:
• Passing the VOTES Act in Massachusetts, including same day voter registration and election day voting, and making voting more accessible to people who are incarcerated.
• At the federal level, passing the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

On Health Care: Treat mental health care as seriously as other health care

• Treating mental and behavioral health care as seriously as all other forms of health care. Maura will invest in workforce development and support, create enforceable standards for parity in coverage, and build on successful models for providing behavioral health access in the community.
• Lowering the cost of prescription drugs by increasing transparency in the pharmaceutical industry and exploring ways to ensure that prices correlate with the value new drugs add to available treatment regimens.
• Focusing on ways to lower overall health care costs for families, including rising premiums and out-of-pocket costs, and ways to address unwarranted increases in provider prices.

On Immigration: End state involvement in federal immigration matters

• Ensuring that eligible undocumented residents can receive a driver's license, regardless of immigration status.
• Ending state and local law enforcement's involvement in federal immigration matters.
• Expanding the state's capacity to meet the language access needs of our communities.
• Providing health care coverage for children regardless of their or their parents' immigration status.
• At the federal level, providing a meaningful pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

On Technology: Prioritize electric vehicle charging infrastructure

• Increasing investments in public transportation, including regional transit authorities, with the help of federal funding.
• Shifting rail service patterns to serve throughout the day instead of a rush-hour focus. Technology and the pandemic have changed commuting patterns, and we should adjust accordingly.
• Prioritizing public spending on electric vehicle charging infrastructure to projects that benefit low- and moderate-income households and overburdened communities.