Health Care

Press Conference: Federal Health Care Funding Makes Dollars and Sense for Maine

At a press conference today, representatives from the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP), Maine Equal Justice Partners (MEJP), Maine Medical Association (MMA), and Small Business Owner […]

Posted March 12, 2013

Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care

Health Care

Maine’s 2011 Health Insurance Law: Winners and Losers

MECEP illustrates the impact of Maine’s new health insurance law on rates for small businesses by region. The information is from Consumers for Affordable Health Care’s new […]

MECEP

Posted September 6, 2012

Tags Health Care

Health Care

Statement on "Few Winners, Many Losers: Evaluating the Impact of Key Provisions of Maine's New Health Insurance Law to Date"

New report confirms that premiums rise for most Maine consumers and small businesses Augusta, Maine (Tuesday, September 4, 2012) Garrett Martin, Executive Director of the Maine […]

Posted September 4, 2012

Tags Health Care

Maine’s Economy

National KIDS COUNT Index Tells a Positive, Yet Cautionary Tale

In light of recent press around Maine’s Hunger Initiative, pioneered by Preble Street, it is timely to take a look at child well-being indicators as researched by […]

Alexandra Alvarez

Posted August 1, 2012

Tags Children, Education, Health Care

Health Care

Health Insurance is Good

As summarized in the New York Times last week, two recent studies show that Medicaid works. A study conducted in Oregon by researchers from MIT and Harvard […]

Joel Johnson

Posted July 31, 2012

Tags Health Care, Medicaid

Health Care

What’s the real story with health insurance rates in Maine?

Today’s Maine Wire story on the impact of last year’s health insurance law passed by the Maine legislature paints a too-good-to-be-true picture about declining health insurance rates […]

Garrett Martin

Posted May 16, 2012

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Taxes and Budget

Faulty Data and Bad Decisions

On March 7, newspapers statewide reported that “a computer problem that allowed at least 19,000 Mainers who were not eligible for Medicaid to receive benefits has thrown […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted March 9, 2012

Tags Budget, Health Care, Medicaid

Taxes and Budget

Questions

Yesterday the Portland Press Herald published an Associated Press report on Maine’s Medicaid spending. In the online version of the story was a “poll” that featured the […]

Garrett Martin

Posted February 22, 2012

Tags Budget, Health Care, Medicaid

Health Care

LePage Administration Proposal Puts Political Appointee Perks Ahead of Health Care for Maine’s Most Vulnerable

For the last several months, public attention has focused on the LePage Administration’s proposal to eliminate health care benefits for 65,000 Maine children, seniors and disabled individuals. […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted February 21, 2012

Tags Health Care

Health Care

Testimony at Hearing on LD 1670, An Act To Extend the Scope of the Maine Guaranteed Access Reinsurance Association

MECEP has been consistent in highlighting that PL 90’s reinsurance program effectively subsidizes the individual insurance market and helps drive down the average cost and premiums within […]

MECEP

Posted February 15, 2012

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Press Conference: Federal Health Care Funding Makes Dollars and Sense for Maine

Maine’s 2011 Health Insurance Law: Winners and Losers

Statement on "Few Winners, Many Losers: Evaluating the Impact of Key Provisions of Maine's New Health Insurance Law to Date"

National KIDS COUNT Index Tells a Positive, Yet Cautionary Tale

Health Insurance is Good

What’s the real story with health insurance rates in Maine?

Faulty Data and Bad Decisions

Questions

LePage Administration Proposal Puts Political Appointee Perks Ahead of Health Care for Maine’s Most Vulnerable

Testimony at Hearing on LD 1670, An Act To Extend the Scope of the Maine Guaranteed Access Reinsurance Association