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Maine DHHS kills funding for school-based student health centers
The program that provides basic medical care to students who lack access to a doctor falls victim to the recent state budget negotiations.
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Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Regulator denies health co-op’s request to adjust insurance policy offerings
The state rules the ACA insurer’s push to make some of its policies more competitive missed the deadline, so now it hopes Anthem’s cheaper ‘silver’ plans are rejected.
Posted inNation & World, News
Senators face legislative kaleidoscope of health-care choices
As the kaleidoscope of options brings about debate and likely amendments, one is a skimpy plan called a ‘skinny repeal.’
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Harvard Pilgrim reduces Maine rate-hike request for 2018
The insurer says it can lower the increase to 29.2% from 39.7% on individual ACA plans, but that’s still well above the requests of its two competitors in the state.
Posted inPolitics
Former House speaker Boehner predicts Republicans will ‘never’ repeal and replace
He says their best hope is to peel away some tax provisions and regulations and end the insurance mandates.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Both political parties to blame for U.S. health care system’s ills
And the irony is, if we ‘let Obamacare fail,’ the federal government will have to step in and fix it.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Health care has become a bipartisan failure
Neither party has addressed the fundamental problem, which is the high cost, not who should pay the bill.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Republicans feeling pressure to pivot on effort to dismantle ACA
Seeing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s effort as doomed, some in the Senate begin seeking areas of compromise with Democrats.