Taxes and Budget

What’s in the $430 million supplemental budget

On Monday, Governor Janet Mills signed into law a $430 million supplemental budget passed by the legislature that includes significant investments in pressing needs for Mainers, particularly […]

James Myall

Posted April 24, 2024

Tags Budget, Education, Housing, Medicare, Revenue, Seniors, SNAP, Wages

Health Care, Taxes and Budget

Maine Legislature preserves expansion of Medicare Savings Programs

The Legislature approved the supplemental budget early Thursday morning, and it now heads to Gov. Janet Mills, who is expected to sign it. By refusing to roll […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted April 18, 2024

Tags Budget, Health Care, Medicare

Health Care, Taxes and Budget

Mills administration wants to roll back law expanding financial support for older Mainers

The Maine Center for Economic Policy, a left-leaning research organization, estimates about 45,000 Mainers who would have been eligible to receive thousands of dollars per year would […]

Portland Press Herald

Posted March 5, 2024

Tags Budget, Health Care, Medicare

Health Care

Proposed changes to Medicare Savings Program would impact 45,000 older Mainers’ eligibility for health care benefits

Last year, Governor Mills signed a budget into law that expanded eligibility to the Medicare Savings Program (MSP), a profound investment in helping older Mainers pay for […]

Arthur Phillips

Posted February 29, 2024

Tags Health Care, Medicare, Seniors

Taxes and Budget

MECEP statement on federal “Inflation Reduction Act”

Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) applauds the proposed “Inflation Reduction Act” recently announced by US Senators Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin and urges Maine’s Congressional delegation […]

Posted August 1, 2022

Tags Corporate Power, Economic Security, Economy, Federal, Health Care, Income Tax, Inflation, Medicare, Tax Fairness, Taxes

Health Care

Dental care is health care. MaineCare should cover it.

Our mouths are part of our bodies, so dental care is heath care. But a limited view of what counts as health care is leaving Mainers with […]

James Myall

Posted April 26, 2021

Tags Economic Security, Health Care, Inequality, Medicaid, Medicare, Poverty

Health Care

Press Release: U.S. House GOP Aims for Cuts that Cost Working Families and Those Struggling to Make Ends Meet

U.S. House Budget Committee is scheduled to review a budget resolution that makes hard-working families pay more and worsens budget deficits with massive tax cuts for the […]

Posted July 19, 2017

Tags Federal, Health Care, Higher Education, Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP

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

Medicare at 50

Harry Truman was president when I was born. I was 13 years old on July 30, 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Independence, Missouri to sign […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted July 30, 2015

Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care, Medicare

Health Care

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, […]

Mark Sullivan

Posted July 29, 2015

Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare

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What’s in the $430 million supplemental budget

Maine Legislature preserves expansion of Medicare Savings Programs

Mills administration wants to roll back law expanding financial support for older Mainers

Proposed changes to Medicare Savings Program would impact 45,000 older Mainers’ eligibility for health care benefits

MECEP statement on federal “Inflation Reduction Act”

Dental care is health care. MaineCare should cover it.

Press Release: U.S. House GOP Aims for Cuts that Cost Working Families and Those Struggling to Make Ends Meet

Medicare: 50 years old and, since health care reform, more fiscally fit

Medicare at 50

The day health care in America changed forever