18 Million to be in HSAs by end of 2007
Information Strategies, Inc just released their projections for Health Saving Account growth for the year 2007. These projections show how popular these low-cost, comprehensive benefit health insurance plans are becoming […]
Read More →Part II: Child Medicaid Spending A Roadmap to Saving $128 Million in Maine Medicaid without Dropping Coverage for One Child.
Read the full report | In 2004, Maine had the second highest spending per child Medicaid beneficiary of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, spending 136 percent more […]
Read More →Your tax dollars at work…
In my most recent column in the Rockland Courier Gazette, I discuss news from Augusta that Maine DOT spent $625,000 of your tax dollars on a restroom: Flushing taxpayer dollars […]
Read More →HSA Plans Cutting Down on Unnecessary Emergency Room Use
According to a recent Medical News Today article, individuals with Health Saving Account (HSA)-type high deductible plans had a 25 percent drop in emergency room use, based on a Harvard […]
Read More →How to Cover the Young and Uninsured – Oddly, It’s Not through Dirigo
Anthem’s parent company, WellPoint, is shaking up the health insurance marketplace with a new product targeting the young and uninsured with affordable coverage that they actually want and will buy. […]
Read More →Maine’s Personal Income in 2006: Private Sector Continues to Shrink
Read the full report | Personal income is an important economic measure of a state’s well-being. Higher levels of personal income mean that a state’s residents are able to buy […]
Read More →Taxes Matter VI . . . more than “Public Investment”
In a classic example of Orwellian Double-Think, “government spending” in now “government investment.” Naturally, this implies that government spending has a surplus benefit above and beyond the taxes raised to […]
Read More →BDN Op-Ed: Still time for compromise on education reform
Stephen L. Bowen: Still time for compromise on education reform Bangor Daily News, March 21, 2007 It is said that the sign of a good compromise is that all the […]
Read More →Why Ireland is Thriving: Lessons for Maine
In a new article in the National Review, Chris Edwards explains how Ireland became an economic success story. He found that: “Irish government spending fell from more than 50 percent […]
Read More →The Cigarette and Tobacco Products License Fees
The Cigarette and Tobacco Products License Fees The next installment of the “Hidden Tax/Fee of the Week” is available on the MHPC website. Total Hidden Taxes/Fees to Date: 273
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