James Myall, policy analyst for the Maine Center for Economic Policy, a progressive think tank, said the bill “undermines the whole purpose of Medicaid, which is to keep people healthy.”
“It’s making fundamental shifts in a program designed to help people in hard times,” Myall said. “In order to be eligible for Medicaid, it would be contingent on extra hoops (work requirements) people would have to jump through in service of giving more tax cuts to the wealthy.”
Providers fear Medicaid cuts could worsen Maine’s health care access crisis
