PARIS — An Affordable Care Act information session in the Paris Fire Station Tuesday evening offered a run-through of the new law, but left some still scratching their heads. “The biggest take-away for me is that this may confuse issues rather than make them more straightforward,” Bill Bryant said after the session. “Obviously there are more […]
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Federal Obamacare official does little to quell state health care panel’s concerns
AUGUSTA — A committee designed to advise state government on the roll-out of the federal Affordable Care Act met for the second time on Monday but ended up generating far more questions than answers. One of the questions everyone on the Health Exchange Advisory Committee had is how many Mainers have signed up for health […]
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R. Pineau: Single payer the way to go
I have been watching the people of Maine during the federal shutdown and the problem is health care. A young girl gets pregnant and she is lost. The fact is though, that her child is this country’s future. A woman gets pregnant and she doesn’t know how her child will be taken care of. Single […]
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Suffocating from the high cost of meds
An asthma attack feels like breathing through a pillow that is being held to your face. No matter how hard you work to draw in breath, you can’t get enough air. Panic sets in, and it becomes even harder to breathe. In this country, nine people die of this chronic disease every day. Nine. Every […]
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State to hold ACA info sessions in South Paris, Farmington
The Maine Bureau of Insurance will hold public sessions in South Paris and Farmington to provide information about the Affordable Care Act. The sessions will offer information about the new health insurance marketplace, also known as the exchange, as well as information on new health insurance plans being offered in Maine and the law’s other […]
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James Lysen: Keeping people healthy is the best solution
Recent letters and guest columns in the Sun Journal have raised issues concerning the recent failure of Maine to expand MaineCare, and attempts to obstruct the Affordable Care Act — the law of the land — that I would like to address. MaineCare expansion was favored by strong majorities in both the Maine Senate and […]
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Lawmakers hosting TV show on health care law
LEWISTON — State Sens. John Cleveland, D-Auburn, and Margaret Craven, D-Lewiston, are hosting a TV show on the local cable access channel in October that focuses on the Affordable Care Act. Their guests are Kevin Lewis, CEO of Lewiston-based Maine Community Health Options, and Mitchell Stein of Consumers for Affordable Health Care. The show, “Answers […]
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Obamacare enrollment presentation at Lewiston Public Library
LEWISTON — Potential enrollees gathered for an informational presentation about the Affordable Care Act at the Lewiston Public Library on Tuesday evening. State Sen. Margaret Craven delivered opening statements to a group of about six, explaining her role on the ACA Oversight Committee. She told the group that she was excited for the self-employed to […]
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Heidi Brooks: Health care is a human right
On Sept. 15, the Sun Journal published a piece co-authored by several Republican legislators regarding the debate about whether Maine should accept federal funds for health care. A cornerstone of the Affordable Care Act is that states accept funds to provide 69,500 of Maine’s lowest income people health care through MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program. […]
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Rich Livingston: Saving lives by any name has to be a good thing
There has been quite a lot of verbal ping pong, much of it played out on the pages of the Sun Journal, about whether Medicaid should be called “welfare,” or not. What possible difference does that make to the lives of people who would or would not have access to life-saving health care depending on […]