Starting Friday, Massachusetts will require insurance companies to cover vaccinations for all state residents, no matter what the Trump administration recommends, Gov. Maura Healey said Thursday.

In a defiant news conference at the State House, the Democratic governor laced into U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., accusing him of spreading misinformation, and the Trump administration of playing politics, with a critical matter of public health.

“We are taking a stand. We are a health care leader, and we’re not going to let the Trump administration or Robert Kennedy cost lives and take us down when others fail to do their job,” Healey said.

Healey’s office rolled out a three-pronged strategy on Thursday that also includes allowing pharmacists to administer the

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