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, […]

Infant mortality in the U.S. has declined dramatically since Congress created Medicaid 50 years ago

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, […]

Another tilt at the windmill, more wasted taxpayer funds, but a win for uninsured Maine young people

The Supreme Court today declined to hear the LePage Administration’s appeal of a November 1st Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the Administration’s request to cut 6,000 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The true tale of a health policy maverick

Ohio Governor John Kasich isn’t afraid of controversy, and he’s been taking his show on the road as of late. In Maine recently, he promoted a constitutional […]

Maine's Lost Medicaid Funding Update

Maine has now lost MORE THAN $356 MILLION in federal health care funds. This counter illustrates the high stakes in the ongoing debate over the state accepting federal […]

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, […]