Health Care

New Census Data: Maine Uninsured Rate Jumps by .9% from 2012 to 2013; Number of Mainers without Health Insurance Grew by 12,000

Nationally, the uninsured rate dropped by .2%; Maine and New Jersey were the only states where the rate of uninsured residents rose Augusta, Maine (Tuesday, September 16, […]

Posted September 16, 2014

Tags Health Care

Wrong Way for Maine on Health Insurance

Maine is one of only two states in the country to experience an increase in the percentage of their people who do not have health insurance. The number […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted September 16, 2014

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Health Care

Attention: Important Census Data Ahead

Next week the U.S. Census Bureau will have two major releases that will provide researchers, policymakers, the media, and the public with critically important data on poverty, […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted September 12, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Medicaid, Poverty

Health Care

A Divide and Conquer Strategy that Risks the Health of Maine’s Seniors and Working Poor

The classic “divide and conquer” strategy, often attributed to cunning Julius Caesar, operates on the premise that pitting your adversaries against each other before you strike is […]

Christy Daggett

Posted August 5, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Seniors

Health Care

Federal Court Decisions Could Impact Mainers' Healthcare in Future

For the moment, people who have affordable coverage as a result of tax subsidies—including an estimated 39,000 Mainers—have nothing to fear. But two federal appellate court decisions […]

Hal Brewster

Posted July 23, 2014

Tags Federal, Health Care

Health Care

Maine’s bankrupt health policy

This year, 1,300 Mainers will be saddled with catastrophic health costs. Here’s how it could have been avoided – while creating thousands of jobs and boosting state […]

Christy Daggett

Posted July 3, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Health Care, Jobs and Income

Percy Spencer’s Candy Bar: Health Care Reform and the Innovation Economy

Yesterday, my scientist brother promised my eight-year-old son a new Hot Wheels car if he could research and explain how the microwave cooked his lunch. My son […]

Christy Daggett

Posted June 24, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Health Care, Taxes and Budget

LePage’s Erroneous Bonds Policy Seriously Threatens Maine Hospital Finances

Last week, the (Lewiston) Sun Journal reported that the LePage Administration’s anti-bonding policies are forcing MaineGeneral Medical Center to pay $42 million more in interest on loans […]

Jody Harris

Posted June 18, 2014

Tags Bonds, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

Health Care, Taxes and Budget

Everything comes with a cost: the perilous (and unnecessary) fate of the Portland Free Clinic

Despite the historic opportunity offered by the federal funds available to expand Medicaid to cover Maine’s uninsured, millions of dollars earmarked for our state have been lost […]

Christy Daggett

Posted June 4, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Medicaid

Health Care

Between the lines of stockholder calls, refusing Medicaid expansion bad for hospitals’ balance sheets

First-quarter financial results are in, and the CEOs of some of America’s publicly-traded hospitals systems are finding Medicaid expansion is good for business. And they are reporting […]

Christy Daggett

Posted May 14, 2014

Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid

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New Census Data: Maine Uninsured Rate Jumps by .9% from 2012 to 2013; Number of Mainers without Health Insurance Grew by 12,000

Wrong Way for Maine on Health Insurance

Attention: Important Census Data Ahead

A Divide and Conquer Strategy that Risks the Health of Maine’s Seniors and Working Poor

Federal Court Decisions Could Impact Mainers' Healthcare in Future

Maine’s bankrupt health policy

Percy Spencer’s Candy Bar: Health Care Reform and the Innovation Economy

LePage’s Erroneous Bonds Policy Seriously Threatens Maine Hospital Finances

Everything comes with a cost: the perilous (and unnecessary) fate of the Portland Free Clinic

Between the lines of stockholder calls, refusing Medicaid expansion bad for hospitals’ balance sheets