All posts tagged "Obamacare"
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What does a state-based health insurance exchange mean for Maine?
Last week, Governor Janet Mills announced that Maine will pursue a state-based health...
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Medicaid expansion is here. Now what?
For the second time in 17 years, Maine has expanded Medicaid. Governor Mills...
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Could Maine’s PL 90 become the blueprint for new federal health care reform?
A federal judge’s ruling that the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) — Medicaid...
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Medicaid expansion activists will hurt people who need help just to prove a point
Medicaid-expansion advocates plan to bring busloads of able-bodied adults to DHHS offices on July...
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Democrats delay the tough decisions until after the November election
As the legislative session enters its last weeks, Democrats are sitting on their...
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Tell the Legislature to put their Medicaid Expansion funding plan in writing
It’s been 100 days since voters passed the referendum to expand Medicaid. So...
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Funding Medicaid expansion requires tough choices to avoid the pitfalls of the past
I have laid out four basic principles to guide the Legislature’s decision on...
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We must not be fiscally irresponsible in implementing Medicaid expansion
It took a lot of work to balance Maine’s budget, bring fiscal responsibility...
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Congress must delay health insurance tax
Leaders in Washington are seeking ways to stabilize the health care system and...
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Maine can learn from Ohio’s Medicaid expansion mistake
I had the privilege of spending some time in your state earlier this...
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Maine cannot afford another Medicaid expansion
Maine voters will decide tomorrow at the ballot box whether to expand Medicaid...
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Question 2 supporters accused of pushing ‘unethical’ ads on social media
Lies and deceit continue from the campaign pushing for Medicaid expansion, or Question...
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Important questions regarding our future are on the ballot; make your voice known
Maine needs you to make important decisions that will affect our future. Please...
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Governor LePage issues statement about hospital CEOs pushing for Medicaid expansion
In response to a newsletter put out by Maine Medical Center CEO Richard...
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Medicaid expansion is ruining budgets in other states, just like it did in Maine
The Maine people are being told that if Medicaid is not expanded, children...
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Taxpayers should not pay to give ‘free’ healthcare for able-bodied adults
Special-interest groups are using the ballot box to push initiatives that are bad...
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Voters need to weigh the consequences of Medicaid expansion
When it comes to Medicaid expansion, at one time, Maine was ahead of...
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Maine DHHS analysis of the MaineCare expansion debate
Despite being rejected five times previously, once again, a push to expand MaineCare—the...
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Senators Collins and King did not put Maine first in ObamaCare debate
Those elected to represent the people of Maine have a responsibility to prioritize...
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Senator Collins killed reforms to ObamaCare
Maine’s senior senator in Washington, D.C. single-handedly killed the chance to reform ObamaCare...
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You must act now to save the American health care system
If we are going to save the American healthcare system, we need your...
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Empty promises of Medicaid expansion not worth the price tag
This November, Mainers will be asked a familiar question: should our State expand...
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Democratic Secretary of State gift wraps ballot language for supporters of Question 2
After accepting feedback from Maine citizens throughout a 30-day public comment period, Democratic...
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Proponents of Medicaid expansion find themselves in a rhetorical conundrum
Medicaid: Is it welfare or insurance? Those who have actually read the legal...
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Making promises is easy if you don’t live in the real world
It’s easy for politicians in Washington, D.C. to make promises to the people,...
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Medicaid Expansion: Taxpayer-funded health care for adults and noncitizens
It’s imperative that government spends public funds in the best interest of its...
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Cost overruns a certainty with Medicaid expansion
The Office of Fiscal and Program Review released the fiscal note for the...
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Maine’s dysfunctional experiment with Medicaid expansion
This November, Maine voters will be asked whether they want to expand Medicaid...
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Medicaid expansion jeopardizes services for the truly needy
Proponents of Medicaid expansion often assert that expansion insures more people and leads...
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Maine’s Senators are out of touch on ObamaCare
If Washington insiders were forced to use the failing ObamaCare system, they would...
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Reject Medicaid Expansion
The Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC) released its newest original research report, Reject...
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Medicaid expansion will not end Maine’s opioid epidemic
Dedicating more public funds to a government program is not a measure of...
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Expanding Medicaid means more taxes for working Mainers
Health care is perhaps the most complex and contentious issue being debated throughout...
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The Great Divide: The Left’s Disconnect with Middle America
In the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, the American political left...
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Nobody in Maine Asked Angus King for a Lecture on Bipartisanship
I hate it when partisan hacks stink up my Sunday morning news programs....
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Let’s End the National Nightmare of ObamaCare
Let’s set the record straight on a lot of the propaganda you are...
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Critique of Maine’s Health Reform Law Misses the Mark
As Maine’s successful reforms to its health insurance market in 2011 continue to...
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LePage Sends Blistering Letter to Paul Ryan
Since the release of the House Republican “plan” for repealing Obamacare, conservative reaction...
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Consumers and Co-Ops Continue to Struggle Under the ACA
Years after its implementation, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or ObamaCare, continues to...
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Federal Circuit Court Rules Against Obama Administration
Obamacare suffered another major defeat last week when the federal circuit court ruled...
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Thousands of Mainers Could See Premium Increases over 40%
Community Health Options (CHO), a Lewiston-based insurance provider, has asked the Maine Bureau...
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Patients, Customers and Taxpayers Should Be Worried
Community Health Options (CHO) has decided to increase prices for patients and customers...
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Say Goodbye to Two Billion Dollars
The signature “achievement” of Obama’s Presidency, Obamacare, was dealt yet another major blow...
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At What Point Can We Admit Obamacare Has Failed?
It’s been almost six years since President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act...
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Maine’s Obamacare Success Story Falters
Community Health Options, a Lewiston based health insurance co-op has announced that it will suspend...
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New Study: Obamacare Fails to Meet Expectations
According to a new study put out by the Mercatus Center, the Affordable...
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Stephens: Whack-a-Mole for Business
Last week , after over forty years in business, A Maine institution closed...
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Poliquin: How I’ve Reduced Washington’s Burden On Mainers
Maine is home to the most skilled, honest and dedicated workers in the...
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Supreme Court Upholds Federal Obamacare Subsidies
On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the...
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Poliquin: How ObamaCare Hurts Maine Companies And Sends Jobs To China
For years, hard-working Maine companies, such as Hardwood Products and Puritan Companies of...
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Poliquin: Made-In-Maine, Free-Market Solutions to ObamaCare
For several years, families and small businesses have suffered from the negative effects...
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FGA Report Highlights Enrollment Explosion Under Medicaid Expansion
On Wednesday, the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) released a report highlighting the...
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Scontras: The Laws of Economics Apply to Healthcare Too
Recently on Twitter, a very non-political friend of mine posted something about the...
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Senate and House Republicans Look to Reconcile Budgets
Early Friday morning, Senate Republicans passed their first budget since 2006. The vote...
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Poliquin: ObamaCare Continues to Hurt Mainers
As I have repeatedly said, too many of our hard-working families and small...
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Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in King v Burwell
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King v. Burwell,...
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Problems Continue to Plague Obamacare
On Friday, the Obama Administration admitted that approximately 800,000 Healthcare.gov customers have received...
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Maine Takes Sides in Obamacare Supreme Court Case
Maine seems to have taken a side in the U.S. Supreme Court case...
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Poliquin Explains Controversial Obamacare Vote
Representative Poliquin, whose vote this week against repealing Obamacare provoked backlash among grassroots...
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Michaud on Ebola: Give West African immigrants Medicaid
At Wednesday’s gubernatorial debate, U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, the Democratic candidate, suggested U.S. policymakers...
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3,289 Mainers lose health insurance plans due to Obamacare
More than 3,000 Mainers are set to lose their current health insurance plans...
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VIDEO: Ex-Prisoners Take Priority Under ObamaCare Medicaid Expansion
The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Naples, Florida-based think tank focused on developing...
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HHS docs detail “high risk” security problems with HealthCare.gov
The Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group Judicial Watch has uncovered documents showing that senior...
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Sting operation shows majority of fake Obamacare applications getting approved
As problems with President Barack Obama’s health care law continue to unfold across...
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Maine Family Endures Health Insurance Nightmare
A Maine family is enduring a nightmare as the result of systemic data...
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Data flaws jeopardize ObamaCare coverage for millions
Inconsistencies in application data submitted to online health care insurance exchanges may jeopardize...
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Daily Catch: White House rules, Snowden, Potato Wars and the East-West Corridor…
Unilateral Climate Policy: President Obama is prepared to unveil a new regulation on...
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Obamacare Medicaid expansion dead
AUGUSTA – The final chance to expand Maine’s Medicaid program pursuant to the...
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Breaking down the new Rasmussen poll: O’care underwater, strong for support limited government
The Maine Wire got a look at the cross-tabs behind the latest Rasmussen...
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With Obamacare enrollment, the devil is in the details
Two new reports about the impact of the Affordable Care Act are casting...
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Poll: Health insurance premiums skyrocketing under Obamacare
Health insurance premiums under the Democratic health care law are skyrocketing, according to...
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Daily Catch: Covered California Enrolling GOP to Vote Democrat, Koch Wars, Speechless Sebelius, and more
It Begins: Is Obamacare going to be used to recruit voters into the...
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Poll: Mainers’ support for Medicaid expansion soft
A poll released Wednesday by opponents of Medicaid expansion found support for the...
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Maine Obamacare enrollment goal beat with help from Republicans
Maine has exceeded the Obama administration’s enrollment goal for the HealthCare.gov insurance exchanges...
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Progressives score hollow victory with Medicaid expansion committee vote
AUGUSTA – In a 5-7 party line vote, the Legislature’s Health and Human...
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For parents of disabled children, MaineCare waitlists are a nightmarish prospect
When doctors discovered that Jeff and Kirsten Martin’s child would have serious medical...
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Maine commissioners say Medicaid spending threatens natural resource agencies
AUGUSTA – Members of Gov. Paul LePage’s cabinet gathered at the State House...
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CMS: Two-thirds of small business employees to see health insurance rate increases under Obamacare
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released a report Friday which...
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Daily Catch: O to End Austerity, Dems Questioned on ACA Savings, Bellows’ Fuzzy Math, and more
Big Brother in the Newsroom (update): After learning yesterday that the Federal Communications...
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Has Maine's safety net turned into a hammock?
I was surprised to read in a recent op-ed column by state Sen....
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Has Maine’s safety net turned into a hammock?
I was surprised to read in a recent op-ed column by state Sen....
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Dirigo Health – High priced lessons learned
By Jonathan McKane — A tax in Maine has been repealed. After 10...
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Official: No one knows how many people have paid for Obamacare
WASHINGTON, D.C. – An official from the federal Centers on Medicare and Medicaid...
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Medicaid expansion gets another public hearing
AUGUSTA – For the second time in the 126th Legislature, the Health and...
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Another Massive O'Care Exemption
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama decreed Thursday that the Affordable Care Act’s...
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Medicaid expansion fight unfolds in polls
The Maine People’s Alliance, a liberal advocacy group, claimed on Thursday that...
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Obamacar: Building on Obamacare's runaway success
By P. C. Poppycock, Maine Wire correspondent Giddy over the devastatingly successful introduction...
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Why Obamacare Is Off the Rails
By Pem Schaeffer and Stanley Ralph The introduction of the Affordable Care Act...
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Maine Obamacare enrollments still dismal
The number of Mainers choosing Obamacare plans at the dysfunctional HealthCare.gov website is...
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Obama: "More than 100 MILLION Americans" have enrolled
President Barack Obama on Monday told a conference call of progressive community organizers...
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White House offers "fix" for insurance plans cancelled due to Obamacare
President Barack Obama announced Thursday that his administration would not enforce key provisions...
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271 Mainers pick Obamacare plans via Healthcare.gov; 12,300 plans cancelled due to Obamacare
The Obama administration has finally revealed how many people have picked health insurance...
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Top Republicans say broken Obamacare promises show Medicaid expansion is a bad deal
AUGUSTA – Top Republicans said Tuesday that problems with President Obama’s signature health...
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Obamacare causing tens of thousands of Mainers to lose insurance plans
President Obama’s signature health care law is causing big shakeups in Maine’s individual...
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Maine teachers union unhappy with Obamacare, seeking exemption
In a recent letter to members of the Maine Education Association, MEA Benefits...
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Vaunted Obamacare website still broken
Technical problems with the federal health care insurance exchange are depriving Mainers of...
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Technical issues plague Oct. 1 health exchange rollout in Maine (Update: Day 4 – Exchange site still broken)
The Oct. 1 launch of the federal Affordable Care Act’s health care insurance...
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Pingree: Republican House members holding Americans "hostage"
Not to be outdone by Sen. Angus King, who has likened conservatives to...
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Washington, DC to see rally to “exempt” America from Obamacare
On September 10th, the West Lawn of the Capitol building will witness a...
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M.D. Harmon: LoFo voters, biased media bolster Obamacare apologists
One of the current political buzzwords is “LoFo voter,” a short way to...
