LAST WEEK, Gov. Paul LePage proposed $221 million in budget cuts to the state’s health and human services programs. This week, Mainers get their chance to respond. CUTS WOULD DIRECTLY affect the young, the old, the poor, the sick and the disabled. And cuts to hospital payments would indirectly affect much of the rest of […]
John Richardson
Portland Press Herald
John Richardson is the managing editor for the Portland Press Herald.
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Maine Medicaid deficit mainly due to budget miscalculations
A $120 million budget deficit projected for the fiscal year that began July 1 has set off an ideological debate over the future of Maine’s Medicaid program. The deficit itself, however, is mostly the result of a series of technical budgeting miscalculations, according to a report prepared by the LePage administration. Problems with a new […]
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