Health Care

New Census Data Reveal Maine Is the Only State that Has Not Experienced an Increase in the Percentage of People with Health Insurance since ACA Passage

Maine has fallen from 10th to 24th in the nation for the percentage of people with health coverage since 2010 for a PDF of this release as […]

Posted September 16, 2015

Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care

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

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

Jobs and Income

Department of Defense moves to protect service members and their families from abusive creditors

A soldier returns from a tour of duty in Afghanistan to find his car repossessed in his absence. A sailor on patrol in the Persian Gulf receives […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted July 23, 2015

Tags Consumer Protection, Federal

Jobs and Income

New overtime regulation changes are welcome

“Two days ago, President Obama announced that he’s taking the easiest route to fixing this loophole. He is updating the standards so that employers cannot deny overtime […]

Marpheen Chann-Berry

Posted July 2, 2015

Tags Federal, Job Quality, Overtime

Taxes and Budget

Testimony In Opposition to LD 1417, LD 1418, and LD 1419 (Federal Constitutional Convention)

“If Congress called a constitutional convention or attempted to do so, our nation would be thrown into great turmoil, and likely find itself mired in lengthy legal […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted May 27, 2015

Tags Federal

Health Care, Taxes and Budget

New Report: Rejecting federal health care funds is costing Maine $26.7 million in General Fund savings

Despite five bipartisan votes in favor of accepting federal healthcare funds to cover 70,000 uninsured Mainers, five successive vetoes by the governor have ensured that Maine has […]

Christy Daggett

Posted May 15, 2015

Tags Federal, Health Care, Medicaid

Health Care

The results are in: Accepting federal healthcare funds strengthens state finances, creates jobs, and grows state economies

“A recent report prepared by Manatt Health Solutions for the Maine Health Access Foundation, projected that accepting federal healthcare funds now would yield $26.7 million in net savings […]

Christy Daggett

Posted April 30, 2015

Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care, Medicaid

Maine’s Economy

CFPB Initiative Is an Important Step toward Ending Unscrupulous, Abusive Lending Practices

“By taking this first rulemaking step, the CFPB has initiated a process that must ultimately ban a wide range of abusive lending practices and protect borrowers, especially […]

Posted April 2, 2015

Tags Consumer Protection, Federal

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New Census Data Reveal Maine Is the Only State that Has Not Experienced an Increase in the Percentage of People with Health Insurance since ACA Passage

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

Medicare at 50

The day health care in America changed forever

Department of Defense moves to protect service members and their families from abusive creditors

New overtime regulation changes are welcome

Testimony In Opposition to LD 1417, LD 1418, and LD 1419 (Federal Constitutional Convention)

New Report: Rejecting federal health care funds is costing Maine $26.7 million in General Fund savings

The results are in: Accepting federal healthcare funds strengthens state finances, creates jobs, and grows state economies

CFPB Initiative Is an Important Step toward Ending Unscrupulous, Abusive Lending Practices