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Kevin Miller Bangor Daily News 5/10/2012 AUGUSTA, Maine — House lawmakers voted Tuesday to pass a sweeping and controversial health insurance overhaul bill that supporters say will lower rates through competition but critics warn could lead to costlier, less-accessible care for many Mainers. The House voted 79-68 largely along party lines to approve the bill, […] May 31st, 2012 | Tags: Gov. Paul LePage, interstate competition, LD 1333, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) | Category: Health Care, insurance, legislation, Maine | Comments are closed
Healthwatch staff The Hill 7/18/2011 One glitch leads to another: Efforts to fix a glitch in the healthcare reform law could backfire on thousands of people with disabilities. Republicans want to change a part of the law that made 3 million middle-income people eligible for Medicaid, but several advocates say simply counting Social Security benefits […] July 18th, 2011 | Tags: disability benefits, Gov. Paul LePage, Medicaid, Medicare, Rep. Diane Black, Sen. Mike Enzi, Social Security | Category: Barack Obama, Entitlements, Health Care, insurance | Comments are closed
Kevin Miller Bangor Daily News 1/14/2011 AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage is once again stirring controversy with his off-the-cuff and sometimes off-color statements, this time telling National Association for the Advancement of Colored People leaders and other critics to “kiss my butt” over his decision to decline several invitations from the organization. In typical […] January 14th, 2011 | Tags: Devon Raymond, Gov. Paul LePage, Martin Luther King Day, NAACP | Category: Maine, Politics, Video | Comments are closed
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