Maura Healey

So, you know, it's just to say that we've just got to be strong together.

I'm proud to be governor of this state.

Right now, we're number one in the country in education and healthcare and innovation.

I think we have the second highest life expectancy.

We've got great parks and outdoor spaces and recreation.

We're an incredibly safe state.

A lot of great things going for us.

And that leads to a great quality of life.

And I'm going to do everything I can to protect that, David, and also make life more affordable in the face of a federal government that seems to be doing just about everything to make life more expensive and harder for people.

Well, I mean, we continue to be in dialogue with our local hospitals and health care providers to make sure that they're safe, that their providers are safe, that their patients are safe.

We continue to enforce the law and protect people's access to

gender-affirming care to reproductive health care, including abortion.

This is so important, and it's also, these are rights protected here in Massachusetts, and we're going to uphold those rights.

But, you know, the attacks are, it's just insanity, right?

I mean, you have an administration, RFK comes in and he takes away vaccines.

What do we see?

We see measles and other outbreaks.

What do I do as governor?

I basically set up my own CDC and we figure out a way to get vaccines to people.

I had my public health commissioner actually write a prescription for everybody in the state for vaccines and got insurers to cover it.