Voters in Maine elected overwhelmingly on Tuesday night to expand Medicaid coverage to nearly 70,000 uninsured citizens in a monumental referendum that would make the state the first to expand the health insurance program via the ballot box.
That is, unless Gov. Paul LePage has anything to do with it. The Maine state legislature has voted to expand Medicaid on five separate occasions, and each time, LePage has vetoed it.
Now, voters in the state have done the same, but in a s...
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Election night’s silver cloud for progressives has a lead lining in Ohio
Voters rejected a proposal aimed at slashing prescription drug prices for Ohio’s 3 million Medicaid recipients on Tuesday by a 4-to-1 margin after pharmaceutical companies raised about $60 million for ads and organizing against the measure.
The measure would likely have incurred a legal battle had it passed. It mandated that Medicaid bean-counters pay the same prices that drug companies offer to Veterans Affairs beneficiaries, without specifying how exactly the low-income heal...
Maine embraces Obamacare, votes to expand Medicaid to 70,000 low-income people
Tens of thousands of low-income people previously locked out of affordable coverage got good news tonight.
Voters in Maine elected to expand the Medicaid program, which offers health insurance to low-income people. Before this ballot measure’s success, the state’s legislature repeatedly tried to expand Medicaid, but Gov. Paul LePage (R) issued five different vetoes blocking the legislation.
The Medicaid expansion is a major provision of the Affordable Care Act, bu...
Trump Administration Will Support Work Requirements for Medicaid
Promising “a new day for Medicaid,” Seema Verma, President Trump’s top health care official, called on states to move Medicaid in a conservative direction.
Dangerous Medicaid waivers likely to be approved under Trump administration
A philosophical change is underway for the decades-old Medicaid program, which provides health coverage for over 68 million people, including children, pregnant persons, seniors, modest income-earners, and those living with disabilities.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), released new criteria Tuesday outlining how it will judge state applications that look to innovate the 1965 insurance program....
By the skin of his teeth: learning to walk again without health insurance
An injury left professional bull rider Joseph Dewey paralyzed – now, like countless other Americans, he’s recovering without health insurance
In the weeks after professional bull rider Joseph Dewey suffered an injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down, an outpouring of support kept him buoyed above the undertow of hopelessness and despair.
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The Governor Blocked Medicaid Expansion. Now Maine Voters Could Overrule Him.
The state is the first in the nation to put expansion of the health insurance program on the ballot, opening a new front in the political battle over Obamacare.
Puerto Rico’s Medicaid block grant stands in the way of its hurricane recovery efforts
President Donald Trump will be visiting Puerto Rico on Tuesday to witness first-hand the damage caused by Hurricane Maria and meet with residents who still lack basic necessities. The island — home to more than 3.4 million U.S. residents — is mostly without electricity or running water since Maria made landfall as a major Category 4 hurricane on September 20.
The political and public response to the catastrophe has been muted compared to that of Hurricane Harvey and Irma...
Republican senator calls health care, food, and shelter a ‘privilege’
When asked by a high school student in Wisconsin whether he considered health care a right or a privilege, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) compared access to health care to access to food and shelter, arguing that all three should be considered “privileges” for those who can afford them.
“I think it’s probably more of a privilege,” Johnson said in response to the question. “Do you consider food a right? Do you consider clothing a right? Do you consider...
Republican’s last-gasp effort to demolish Obamacare has likely failed
The last-gasp Republican drive to tear down President Barack Obama's health care law essentially died Monday.
