Approving the expansion at the ballot box would force some Mainers onto Medicaid insurance.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Charles Lawton: Maine has more at stake on health care than most other states
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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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Care shortage puts women and infants at risk
Proposals to eliminate the ACA and gut Medicaid undercut innovative efforts to meet critical medical needs.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Gina Barreca: Nurses do the heavy lifting of binding wounds and lifting spirits
Anyone who has ever been seriously ill probably has a story of the tough, kind nurse who helped them.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
A tragic exodus of refugees from Myanmar reoccurs, and who will stop it?
Let’s hope that the Nobel Peace Prize winner who runs the country now puts an end to all the suffering.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Local & State, News
Anthem leaving Maine’s ACA marketplace, citing uncertainty
The insurer says it will not sell individual plans in 2018 and will reduce off-marketplace health policy options.
Posted inBusiness, Health, News, Politics
Sen. Collins’ firm ‘no’ vote likely kills Republican health care bill
She cements her opposition to the Affordable Care Act repeal after the Congressional Budget Office says it would leave millions more uninsured.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Keeping young athletes in the game
An ACL tear prevention program piloted by a UNE expert has helped Yarmouth soccer players stay healthy and injury-free.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Rigid youth football age cutoff misses real safety concerns
When one 12-year-old is still a child, while another is almost an adult, we need to look at more than age.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Federal court should throw out punitive Maine abortion restriction
Allowing only doctors to perform the procedure effectively bars rural Mainers from getting care.