Growth in personal medical spending as a share of our economy puts the state at substantially greater risk if lawmakers fail to fix the health system’s problems.
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Charles Lawton: Progress on health care requires recognizing its dual definitions
Both personal responsibility and serving a community’s needs as a whole must be components of the solution.
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Charles Lawton: Recipe for economic transformation is universal and ubiquitous
Maine can become a magnet for world-class entrepreneurs, and its major companies can accelerate their own innovative transformations.
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Charles Lawton: Boom in southern, coastal Maine will stall if home prices stay high
Data show that rising costs, not slow income growth, have led to housing unaffordability in several counties.
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Maine needs to shed two myths to transform its economy
They are the myth of ‘The Two Maines’ and the myth that people ‘from away’ represent a threat.
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Charles Lawton: Pursue universal health care or universal insurance? The latter
That strategy is a lot more likely to hit the targets of better outcomes, more innovation and lower cost.
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Charles Lawton: Our national and state body politic needs a time-out
Looking for leaders, we should ask: How do you propose to govern our body politic?
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Charles Lawton: Don’t give up on democracy just because it’s complicated
Chicken Littles decry how the Legislature has failed to enact the will of the people.
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Charles Lawton: Quality self-governance means removing the poisons of conflict
Democratic values of open-minded, collaborative decision-making are designed to serve a purpose bigger than any individual ego or issue.
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Charles Lawton: Stagnating population growth has great economic cost
Maine has to start working on its population problem now because next year, it will only get worse.