Health Care Health Insurance Coverage in Maine: Heading in the Wrong Direction, Particularly for Children New Census Bureau data released yesterday paint a bleak picture for Maine when it comes to improving access to affordable health coverage Maine is the only state […] Garrett Martin Posted September 17, 2015 Tags Children, Health Care
Maine’s Economy, Taxes and Budget Time to turn off Maine’s wasteful tax expenditure “faucet” One of the most fundamental obligations of the governor and legislature is careful, vigilant stewardship of how the state spends taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars. There are many competing […] Mark Sullivan Posted September 2, 2015 Tags Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Health Care Fix the ACA family coverage “glitch” In the two years since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) took effect, more Americans have health insurance than ever before. In 2013, before the law took effect, […] Marpheen Chann-Berry Posted August 18, 2015 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care
Health Care Medicaid works in Maine Here are just a few examples of how. Maine children, the elderly, and people with disabilities derive the greatest benefit. But we are all better off when […] Mark Sullivan Posted August 11, 2015 Tags Health Care, Medicaid
Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy Mainers’ food security depends upon a stronger, improved SNAP Over the course of one year, nearly 1 in 5 Mainers will rely on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to put food on the table. […] Marpheen Chann-Berry Posted August 10, 2015 Tags Children, Food Insecurity, SNAP
Education New high school equivalency test providing opportunity for hundreds of Mainers Over 400 Mainers who would have been passed over by the traditional GED received their high school diplomas in 2014. That’s 400 more Mainers who now have […] Jody Harris Posted August 6, 2015 Tags Education
Health Care Medicare: 50 years old and, since health care reform, more fiscally fit You know there’s an election coming when you start hearing politicians claiming that Medicare is on the verge of bankruptcy. And with the first presidential debate scheduled […] Mark Sullivan Posted August 4, 2015 Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care, Medicare
Health Care Happy birthday to Medicaid and to the thousands of children whose lives it has saved I will never forget one day when was in my late 20s, expecting my first baby. I happened to be alone with my grandmother in her tiny, […] Christy Daggett Posted August 3, 2015 Tags Children, Health Care, Medicaid
Health Care Medicare at 50 Harry Truman was president when I was born. I was 13 years old on July 30, 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Independence, Missouri to sign […] Mark Sullivan Posted July 30, 2015 Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care, Medicare
Health Care The day health care in America changed forever Tomorrow, July 30, is a date of historic firsts. In 1619, the House of Burgesses, America’s first elected governing assembly met for the first time in Virginia, […] Mark Sullivan Posted July 29, 2015 Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare