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State Policies Are Failing Maine's Working Moms

In 2012, women headed one of every three low-income working families in Maine, according to a new report released today by the Working Poor Families Project. These […]

Jody Harris
Posted February 12, 2014
Tags Affordable Care Act, Children, Education, EITC, Employment, Health Care, Incomes, Jobs, Minimum Wage, Poverty, TANF
Health Care

Testimony at Hearing on LD 1578: An Act to Increase Health Security by Expanding Federally Funded Health Care for Maine People

 Maine is on the cusp of an unprecedented economic opportunity. As many as 4,400 jobs and half a billion dollars in economic activity are at stake. That’s […]

MECEP
Posted January 15, 2014
Tags Federal, Health Care
Health Care

Expensive Medicaid Report Relies on Unrealistic Poverty Projection

The Alexander Group, a consulting firm that the LePage administration paid over $900K (using state and federal funds) to produce a report on the feasibility of expanding MaineCare/Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, claims that […]

Joel Johnson
Posted January 14, 2014
Tags Health Care, Medicaid, Poverty
Health Care

County-Level Impacts of Accepting Affordable Care Act Federal Funds are Significant

In 15 of Maine’s 16 counties, a major health care provider is one of the top two employers. In 10 counties, between 1 in 5 jobs and […]

Mark Sullivan
Posted January 14, 2014
Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care
Health Care

Unprecedented Opportunity: Federal Health Care Funds Will Deliver 4,400 Jobs and $500,000,000 in Annual Economic Activity to Maine by 2016

If Maine lawmakers fail this legislative session to accept federal funds to provide health care to almost 70,000 Maine people, approximately half of whom are working, Maine […]

MECEP
Posted January 14, 2014
Tags Economy, Federal, Health Care, Jobs
Health Care

New Report Highlights How the Affordable Care Act Helps Close Affordability Gap

This week the Kaiser Family Foundation released “An Early Look at Premiums and Insurer Participation in Health Insurance Marketplaces, 2014.” The report provides a summary of health […]

Garrett Martin
Posted September 25, 2013
Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Medicaid
Health Care

Fact Sheet: Federal Health Care Funds Will Boost Local Economies

MECEP estimates that turning down more than $1 billion in federal Affordable Care Act funds to cover the full cost of increasing health coverage to 69,500 Mainers will […]

MECEP
Posted September 18, 2013
Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care
Health Care

An Open Letter to Governor LePage

Dear Governor LePage, You’ve got a jobs problem. Since you took office, Maine ranks 46th in job growth and 47th in state economic growth. We’re last in […]

Garrett Martin
Posted June 13, 2013
Tags Affordable Care Act, Budget, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid
Health Care

Maine’s 2011 Health Insurance Law: Winners and Losers

MECEP illustrates the impact of Maine’s new health insurance law on rates for small businesses by region.  The information is from Consumers for Affordable Health Care’s new […]

MECEP
Posted September 6, 2012
Tags Health Care
Health Care

Health Insurance is Good

As summarized in the New York Times last week, two recent studies show that Medicaid works. A study conducted in Oregon by researchers from MIT and Harvard […]

Joel Johnson
Posted July 31, 2012
Tags Health Care, Medicaid
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