Richard Tisei on Health Care Middlesex & Essex Republican (MA Senate)

Undo the damage ObamaCare has done

I will lead the fight to repeal the Medical Device Tax, which has hurt many of the medical device companies in the 6th District. The North Shore has one of the highest concentrations of medical device companies in the nation, and these companies employ thousands of people. This tax is levied on gross income, is collected whether or not a company makes a profit, and is estimated to cost Massachusetts' businesses $411 million per year. This unfair tax is killing job creation in an industry we need to flourish right here at home.

Voted YES on Constitutional call for universal health care

Vote on a Constitutional Amendment: It shall be the obligation and duty of the Legislature and executive officials to enact such laws... 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.

Source citation: Constitutional Amendment ; vote number 721

Opposed tax credits for all smoking regulation costs

Corporations shall be allowed a tax credit equal to 100 per cent of the costs incurred, for the purch and installation of ventilation systems and any other materials used in the construction of a designated smoking area designed to reduce the presence of smoke in non-smoking areas, pursuant to any board of health regulation, city ordinance, town bylaw, or any other municipal variance or exemption. [The effect of this legislation would be to make legislating restrictions on smoking fmore difficult].

Relevant platform section: Part III: Health Care: Tobacco: "We support legislation to regulate smoking in the workplace and all public settings."

Source citation: Bill H.4249 ; vote number 430

Supported $10M cut in the uncompensated care pool

Override Gov. Romney's veto of a Budget Line Item which eliminated $9,670,807 in funding for the uncompensated care pool. This care pool provides health care for people who would otherwise not be covered for hospital visits.

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."

Source citation: Veto Override ; vote number 170

Supports repealing Obamacare.

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