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

Education

Maine adult education students earning a high school equivalency (chart)

Mark Sullivan

Posted August 6, 2015

Tags Education

Health Care

Medicaid works in Maine (chart)

Mark Sullivan

Posted August 5, 2015

Tags Medicaid

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

Affordable Care Act has significantly improved Medicare's finances

Mark Sullivan

Posted August 4, 2015

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care

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

Infant mortality in the U.S. has declined dramatically since Congress created Medicaid 50 years ago

Mark Sullivan

Posted August 3, 2015

Tags Children, 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

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Medicaid works in Maine

Mainers’ food security depends upon a stronger, improved SNAP

New high school equivalency test providing opportunity for hundreds of Mainers

Maine adult education students earning a high school equivalency (chart)

Medicaid works in Maine (chart)

Medicare: 50 years old and, since health care reform, more fiscally fit

Affordable Care Act has significantly improved Medicare's finances

Happy birthday to Medicaid and to the thousands of children whose lives it has saved

Infant mortality in the U.S. has declined dramatically since Congress created Medicaid 50 years ago

Medicare at 50