Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maine. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Maine Sues For Right To Drop Low-Income Residents From Medicaid

Maine Sues For Right To Drop Low-Income Residents From Medicaid: As Republican governors across the country refuse to expand Medicaid under an Obamacare provision that would extend the program to cover an additional 9.2 million low-income Americans, Gov. Paul LePage (R-ME) is going a step further. Although the Obama administration maintains the Supreme Court ruling on the health care law — which requires states to [...]/p

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Mayors Protest Maine Governor’s Plan To Cut Medicaid

Mayors Protest Maine Governor’s Plan To Cut Medicaid: Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) will wait until after the November election to decide if his state will expand its Medicaid program under Obamacare, but in the meantime, mayors of six cities in Maine are protesting LePage’s Medicaid cuts that will eliminate coverage for about 26,000 people in the state. The legislature passed the $20 [...]/p