Robert Travaglini on Health Care

Voted YES on Veto override of cuts in smoking cessation program.
Platform indicates voting YES in Part III: Health Care:Tobacco.

The relevant part of the MassDems Platform is PART III: HEALTH CARE, ACCESS & CHOICE: Tobacco: "We support policies to discourage smoking, especially among youth, and to hold the tobacco industry accountable for their actions against public health."

Voted YES on amending the Constitution to call for universal health care.
Platform indicates voting YES in Part III: Health Care:Health Care.

Upon ratification of this amendment and thereafter, it shall be the obligation and duty of the Legislature and executive officials, on behalf of the Commonwealth, to enact and implement such laws, subject to approval by the voters at a statewide election, as will ensure that no Massachusetts resident lacks comprehensive, affordable and equitably financed health insurance coverage for all medically necessary preventive, acute and chronic health care and mental health care services, prescription drugs and devices.

Relevant platform section: Health Care: Our Party supports the creation of a single-payer health care system both in Massachusetts and in the nation in order to achieve the goal of universal health care. We understand that other methods are less satisfactory to us, but we remain committed to ensuring that every man, woman, and child in our state should have access to high quality health care.

Voted YES on Veto override of $10M cut in the uncompensated care pool.
Platform indicates voting YES in Part III: Health Care:Access and Costs.

Relevant platform section: PART III: HEALTH CARE, ACCESS & CHOICE: Access and Costs: “We remain committed to extending proper coverage to each of the hundreds of thousands of residents still uninsured, and to aiding the even greater number who are underinsured, or at risk of being so.”