Health Care

Repealing the Affordable Care Act Puts Maine’s Health Care and Economy at Risk (Executive Summary)

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Mark Sullivan

Posted June 26, 2017

Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care

Health Care

Repealing the Affordable Care Act Puts Maine’s Health Care and Economy at Risk (Full Report)

A new analysis of the House and Senate health care proposals by the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) finds that repealing the ACA in favor of […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted June 26, 2017

Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care

Health Care

New Report: House and Senate Bills Would Be as Damaging as a Recession, Destroy 10,000 Jobs, Cost 111,000 Mainers Their Health Insurance

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Posted June 26, 2017

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Health Care

LePage policies have left thousands of children without health care

Thousands more Maine children have no access to critical health care services as a result of Governor LePage’s policies, according to data from the US Census Bureau […]

James Myall

Posted June 21, 2017

Tags Health Care, Medicaid

Health Care

Testimony in Opposition to Work Requirement for MaineCare (Proposed 1115 Waiver)

The Maine Center for Economic Policy opposes the changes proposed in the waiver because they undermine the basic principles of the Medicaid program, will cause unnecessary hardships […]

James Myall

Posted May 25, 2017

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Health Care

GOP’s American Health Care Act Would Devastate Health Care in Rural Maine

New analysis from the national Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) demonstrates that the American Health Care Act (AHCA), as passed by the US House of […]

James Myall

Posted May 16, 2017

Tags Health Care, Medicaid

Health Care

MECEP Statement on the House Passage of the American Health Care Act

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Posted May 4, 2017

Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care

Health Care

Committee endorses bill to create universal sick leave in Maine

The Maine Women’s Lobby, Maine Center for Economic Policy, Maine AFL-CIO, Maine Education Association, Maine People’s Alliance, the Maine chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness […]

MaineBiz

Posted April 19, 2017

Tags Health Care, Job Quality, Paid Sick Days

Health Care

Republicans base their new Obamacare repeal on a Maine program they call a success. Don't believe them.

“People who were young and healthy certainly benefited,” says Garrett Martin, executive director of the Maine Center for Economic Policy. “But small businesses that had older employees […]

Chicago Tribune

Posted April 19, 2017

Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care

Health Care

GOP's New Health Care Rallying Cry: Remember The Maine!

“Rather than building as big an insurance pool as possible so the costs got meted out more broadly, what the program did is sequester those people,” explained Garrett Martin, […]

TPM DC

Posted April 17, 2017

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Repealing the Affordable Care Act Puts Maine’s Health Care and Economy at Risk (Executive Summary)

Repealing the Affordable Care Act Puts Maine’s Health Care and Economy at Risk (Full Report)

New Report: House and Senate Bills Would Be as Damaging as a Recession, Destroy 10,000 Jobs, Cost 111,000 Mainers Their Health Insurance

LePage policies have left thousands of children without health care

Testimony in Opposition to Work Requirement for MaineCare (Proposed 1115 Waiver)

GOP’s American Health Care Act Would Devastate Health Care in Rural Maine

MECEP Statement on the House Passage of the American Health Care Act

Committee endorses bill to create universal sick leave in Maine

Republicans base their new Obamacare repeal on a Maine program they call a success. Don't believe them.

GOP's New Health Care Rallying Cry: Remember The Maine!