About 50% of Mainers benefit from these programs, but we still have far to go to improve our health as a nation, including improvements in life expectancy, preventable hospitalizations and infant mortality.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Senate way off base on MaineCare for noncitizens
You want to talk about price tags? Excluding low-income noncitizens from routine health care comes with an unacceptable financial and social cost.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion, Uncategorized
Speaker Talbot Ross: ‘Health care for all’ must not rule out immigrants
It’s time to close a small but unjust gap in MaineCare and return our state to its longstanding practice of greater inclusion.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: The number of uninsured Americans is at an all-time low. Let’s keep it that way
If Congress doesn’t act, then millions of Americans could lose health coverage at the end of the year.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News, Politics
Immigrants in Maine could regain access to health care benefits
Legislation sponsored by Assistant House Majority Leader Rachel Talbot Ross of Portland would roll back a 2011 change that prohibited non-citizens from receiving state Medicaid benefits.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Zombie virus comes back for young victim
Shingles is a painful condition, but it can be treated – if you have health insurance.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World, News
Medicaid expansion may have saved thousands from drug overdose deaths
Researchers concluded that additional access to drug-abuse treatment was linked to a 6% lower overdose rate for states that allowed more people to enroll in Medicaid.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Public-private partnerships are helping to keep Maine healthy
A nonprofit is working with officials to expand access to care in rural areas.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Uncategorized
New Medicaid patients strain Maine’s mental health services
The number of adults getting treatment has nearly doubled since the state expanded the health care program, and wait times are swelling.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Local & State, News
ACA signups down, but Maine’s uninsured rate should fall with Medicaid expansion
From Nov. 1 through Dec. 17, a total of 62,213 Mainers signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act – down about 13% from a year ago.