AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine residents that want to get coverage on the federally-run health exchange by the start of the new year are rushing to get signed up. The deadline to sign up on the exchange for coverage that kicks in on Jan. 1 is Monday. Residents can still sign up for coverage until March […]
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Chamber to host insurance seminar
LEWISTON — The Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce will host a free seminar, “Am I Covered for That?” from noon to 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, at the chamber, 415 Lisbon St. Patti Gagne of the Patti Gagne Agency will be presenting. She has been in the insurance industry since 1987 and will answer some […]
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Maine hospitals reluctant to play lead role in implementing Obamacare
AUGUSTA — A lobbyist for the Maine Hospital Association says that at least half of the state’s hospitals have specialists on hand to help uninsured visitors sign up for health insurance on the exchanges launched last month as part of the Affordable Care Act. Still, the hospitals are wary about taking a lead role in […]
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Defying veto threat, House OKs health law change
WASHINGTON — Brushing aside a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House voted by a healthy bipartisan majority Friday to weaken a core component of “Obamacare” and permit the sale of individual health coverage that falls short of requirements in the law. In all, 39 Democrats broke ranks and supported the legislation, a total that […]
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Feds: About 270 Mainers selected health plans
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — About 270 Maine residents successfully signed up for health insurance plans on the troubled federal website in the first month of open enrollment, health officials said Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the highly anticipated enrollment figures for healthcare.gov, which has been plagued with problems and glitches […]
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Many children won’t confront an elder driver
In 2012, the Sun Journal examined the difficult question of elderly drivers and how their accident rates increase as they age. The story pointed out that drivers over 65 account for 8 percent of all miles driven, yet they are involved in 17 percent of all fatal traffic accidents. It reported how Maine drivers over […]
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Republicans making ‘Obamacare’ their next target
WASHINGTON (AP) — “Obamacare” escaped unharmed from the government shutdown Republicans hoped would stop it, but just as quickly they have opened a new line of attack — one handed to them by the administration itself. While Congress was arguing, President Barack Obama’s plan to expand coverage for the uninsured suffered a self-inflicted wound. A […]
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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 […]