Health Care Accepting Federal Dollars for Affordable Health Care - Still a Great Deal in 2016 The Maine Legislature has another opportunity to accept hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds and offer increased access to affordable health care for tens of […] James Myall Posted March 22, 2016 Tags Federal, Health Care
Health Care Mary Mayhew’s misinformation campaign contradicts reality, experts on the front lines of Maine’s opioid epidemic When 31 states (plus the District of Columbia) have accepted federal funding to expand Medicaid, and two more states are in discussion to do so, the LePage […] James Myall Posted March 7, 2016 Tags Health Care, Medicaid
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
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 Status of Medicaid Expansion in 2015 Mark Sullivan Posted September 16, 2015 Tags Health Care, Medicaid
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
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