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 expansion, subsidies through the exchanges, Medicare reforms, everything — is unconstitutional shocked the political world last Friday. […]
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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 fuel the national conversation about ObamaCare repeal and replacement, progressives are desperate to paint those reforms as […]
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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 of Insurance for a whopping 44.9% rate increase on their catastrophic level plan. CHO is one of […]
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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 into law, and it’s become clear that it has failed to achieve any of it’s major objectives. […]
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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 regarding Obamacare subsidies – but it’s not the side you might expect. The case, King v. Burwell, […]
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Expanding Medicaid will Hurt Maine’s Families with Lower Incomes and Fewer Jobs
Many of Maine’s policymakers have already fallen for the siren call of Medicaid expansion as provided for under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). At first glance, expanding […]
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