Over 2 dozen association health plans have been developed since the administration issued its new rule, and so far they don’t look nearly as skimpy as experts predicted.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Kathleen Parker: States’ new abortion laws illustrate banality of evil
We should not be celebrating laws that ignore the humanity of an unborn child.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Medicare uniquely suited to facilitating health care for all Americans
It eliminates the balkanization and fragmentation that make our current, for-profit system inefficient.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Chronic-pain patients hurt in crackdown on opioids
A well-intended effort to address the overdose crisis has led many doctors to severely limit painkiller prescriptions – and left some patients homebound and without work.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Legislature must act on bill that protects right of patients, doctors to set course of treatment
Many insurance companies use ‘step therapy,’ which requires policyholders to fail on an insurer-approved medicine before they can access their favored treatment.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Local & State, News, Politics
Lawmaker proposing MaineCare dental benefit for low-income adults
The proposal by Rep. Drew Gattine would make Maine the 34th state to provide some form of dental coverage, which is now available only to children under the Medicaid program.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Democrats’ economic proposals tilted to benefit the young
They would do so at the expense of older Americans, and are a radical departure from the past and current model.
Posted inHealth, Life & Culture, Local & State, News, Politics
Mills says state must be ‘backstop’ against federal efforts to restrict abortion
She declares Tuesday that those who would reduce access to legal abortions ‘are going to have to get through me first.’
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine should tighten vaccine exemption law
High rates of disease outbreaks correlate with the state’s easy immunization opt-outs.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: America’s drug-price sickness could have a cure
With a new Congress comes a new opportunity to cut costs – and the parties are on the same page.