Health Care

A Divide and Conquer Strategy that Risks the Health of Maine’s Seniors and Working Poor

The classic “divide and conquer” strategy, often attributed to cunning Julius Caesar, operates on the premise that pitting your adversaries against each other before you strike is […]

Christy Daggett

Posted August 5, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Seniors

Health Care

Maine’s bankrupt health policy

This year, 1,300 Mainers will be saddled with catastrophic health costs. Here’s how it could have been avoided – while creating thousands of jobs and boosting state […]

Christy Daggett

Posted July 3, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Health Care, Jobs and Income

Percy Spencer’s Candy Bar: Health Care Reform and the Innovation Economy

Yesterday, my scientist brother promised my eight-year-old son a new Hot Wheels car if he could research and explain how the microwave cooked his lunch. My son […]

Christy Daggett

Posted June 24, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Health Care, Taxes and Budget

Everything comes with a cost: the perilous (and unnecessary) fate of the Portland Free Clinic

Despite the historic opportunity offered by the federal funds available to expand Medicaid to cover Maine’s uninsured, millions of dollars earmarked for our state have been lost […]

Christy Daggett

Posted June 4, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Medicaid

Health Care

Between the lines of stockholder calls, refusing Medicaid expansion bad for hospitals’ balance sheets

First-quarter financial results are in, and the CEOs of some of America’s publicly-traded hospitals systems are finding Medicaid expansion is good for business. And they are reporting […]

Christy Daggett

Posted May 14, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Health Care, Jobs and Income

More evidence that accepting federal funds to expand health care is the right prescription for Maine

A new study finds that Romneycare – the Massachusetts health insurance program that was used as a model for the Affordable Care Act – has prevented 230 […]

Christy Daggett

Posted May 6, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Health Care, Jobs and Income

Small Businesses and the Self-employed Will Lose if Maine Does Not Accept Federal Health Care Funds

Maine has a higher-than-average number of small businesses and one in seven Mainers is self-employed. More than half of Mainers are self-employed as farmers, loggers, fishermen, and […]

Christy Daggett

Posted April 22, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Economy, Education, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Education

Community Eligibility Program can help hungry kids

This week we celebrate National School Breakfast Week. The breakfast program began as a pilot program in 1966. Now, in the wake of the Great Recession, 11.6 […]

Christy Daggett

Posted March 7, 2014

Tags Children, Education, Food Insecurity

Taxes and Budget

President's Budget Reflects Wrong Priorities for Maine and the Country

(Augusta, ME) States will pay for President Bush’s misplaced priorities, said a group of advocates on Thursday. Calling President’s Bush’s proposed budget a giant “cost shift to states,” representatives […]

Posted February 22, 2007

Tags Budget, Federal

Taxes and Budget

Maine Organizations Voice Concern Over President’s Budget: Proposals Do Not Reflect Maine Priorities

(AUGUSTA, ME) The president’s budget has the wrong priorities for Maine and America. It harms working families by deepening the problem of stagnant living standards and increasing disparities in wages, health […]

Posted February 7, 2007

Tags Budget, Federal

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A Divide and Conquer Strategy that Risks the Health of Maine’s Seniors and Working Poor

Maine’s bankrupt health policy

Percy Spencer’s Candy Bar: Health Care Reform and the Innovation Economy

Everything comes with a cost: the perilous (and unnecessary) fate of the Portland Free Clinic

Between the lines of stockholder calls, refusing Medicaid expansion bad for hospitals’ balance sheets

More evidence that accepting federal funds to expand health care is the right prescription for Maine

Small Businesses and the Self-employed Will Lose if Maine Does Not Accept Federal Health Care Funds

Community Eligibility Program can help hungry kids

President's Budget Reflects Wrong Priorities for Maine and the Country

Maine Organizations Voice Concern Over President’s Budget: Proposals Do Not Reflect Maine Priorities