When it comes to caring for your elderly relatives, Maine’s Democrat-controlled government has some serious splaining to do.
“Maine ranks among the most expensive states for long-term care,” according to a new analysis by CostCare.com.
While the state’s aging residents are suffering the most-expensive healthcare in the nation, Democrat Gov. Janet Mills is fighting with President Trump over her insistence that boys play on girls sports teams and defending ongoing Medicaid fraud.
That would be the same Janet Mills running for the Democrat U.S. Senate nomination on the premise that she is “fighting for Mainers.”
Hard to square that with reality. She’s been in office for nearly eight years.
What’s to show for it? The elderly up against the wall.
“Facts are stubborn things,” CostCare said, quoting John Adams.
Consider that Maine has the:
✓ 4th-highest in-home elderly-care costs nationwide at $101,816 per year
✓ 9th-highest nursing home semi-private room, $167,718
✓ 10th-highest nursing home private room, $178,850
✓ 10th-highest private-duty nurse care, $6,500
✓ 16th-highest assisted living apartment, $81,720
✓ 18th-highest adult day-care services, $29,900
“Families in Maine still face some of the highest care expenses in the country,” a CostCare spokesman says.
The data is based on 2025 costs, the latest statistics on record.
The skyrocketing cost for Maine’s aging population is far from happening in a vacuum.
It’s reality in the poor, northernmost New England state – which has the oldest population in the U.S., according to the U.S. Census.
The state has the largest number of people aged 65 and older – 23 percent of its population.
Maine has held the spot as the nation’s oldest state for several years, driven by a high concentration of baby boomers and a shortage of younger, working-age residents.
By all accounts, a state with a proportionally high number of people needing elderly care should have among the lowest costs based on the simple theory of quantity marketing.
Mills, who at 78 years old one might think to be in tune with Maine’s older population, actually said the following over the weekend at a campaign event as an indication her hearing aid isn’t working:
“People know me,” Mills, who has been in charge of Maine’s elderly health care for two terms as governor, said in Belfast. “There’s no mystery about my record.”
Roger that say the relatives of Maine’s poorest elderly.
