Taxes and Budget Advocates Say GOP Plan Would Hike Taxes For More Than Half Of Maine's Elderly From the story: “I think that’s a fundamental misread of how this bill works,” says Garrett Martin, executive director of the progressive Maine Center for Economic Policy, […] Maine Public Posted November 28, 2017 Tags Seniors, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Health Care, Taxes and Budget Maine Public: Repealing Individual Mandate Would Leave 50,000 More Mainers Uninsured Both the Maine Center for Economic Policy and the Washington, D.C.-based Center for American Progress crunched the numbers from a Congressional Budget Office analysis to get state-specific […] Maine Public Posted November 17, 2017 Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care
Health Care Maine Public: Would Expanding Medicaid Help Or Harm Mainers And The State's Hospitals? If expansion passes, the federal government will initially cover 94 percent of the cost. That ratchets down to 90 percent by 2020 and stays at that level. The Maine Center for Economic Policy projects that’s an injection of about $500 million from the feds per year. But Littlefield says there’s also a state cost. Maine Public Posted October 31, 2017 Tags Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid
Health Care Maine Medical Association Announces Support For Ballot Initiative Expanding Medicaid If Maine expands Medicaid, the federal government will pick up about 90 percent of the tab. The Maine Center for Economic Policy estimates the state would receive […] Maine Public Posted October 11, 2017 Tags Health Care, Medicaid
Health Care Groups Challenge LePage’s Claim That Maine Will Get More Money Under GOP Health Bill The Maine Center for Economic Policy issued a statement Friday saying it estimates Maine would lose $1 billion under the proposal, and that more than 160,000 Mainers stand to lose health coverage. Maine Public Posted September 23, 2017 Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care