Kerry Healey on Health Care

Save $160M by consolidating city & town insurance purchases

Q: There's talk of a $160 million shortfall in the health care program you and the governor helped create. How are you going to pay for that?

HEALEY: [I would] consolidate all of our health care purchases for our cities and towns and have them bought through the state group insurance commission. That will take literally hundreds of millions of dollars that is wasted right now and put it back onto the plate of our cities and towns and that will relieve the pressure on local taxes.

Source: 2006 MA Gubernatorial debate on Fox News with Chris Wallace Sep 25, 2006

Reform medical malpractice to cut insurance rates

By filing Medical Malpractice Reform Legislation, Lt. Governor Healey is taking action to cut skyrocketing medical insurance rates that are hurting consumers and putting some specialists out of business. Source: Campaign website, www.healeycommittee.com, "Issues" May 23, 2006

No new business taxes for healthcare reform

I will not accept any attempt to link healthcare reform with a new tax on business. We will never be able to effectively compete with our neighboring states-let alone the rest of the world-until we recognize that our jobs and our workers are already taxed too much. An anti-employer bias on the part of the legislature scares away jobs. This is the wrong approach on every count, and on every count we're going to change it. Source: Campaign Announcement Speech Mar 2, 2006

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