Health Care Attention: Important Census Data Ahead Next week the U.S. Census Bureau will have two major releases that will provide researchers, policymakers, the media, and the public with critically important data on poverty, […] Mark Sullivan Posted September 12, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Medicaid, Poverty
Health Care A Divide and Conquer Strategy that Risks the Health of Maine’s Seniors and Working Poor The classic “divide and conquer” strategy, often attributed to cunning Julius Caesar, operates on the premise that pitting your adversaries against each other before you strike is […] Christy Daggett Posted August 5, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Seniors
Health Care Maine’s bankrupt health policy This year, 1,300 Mainers will be saddled with catastrophic health costs. Here’s how it could have been avoided – while creating thousands of jobs and boosting state […] Christy Daggett Posted July 3, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid
Health Care, Jobs and Income Percy Spencer’s Candy Bar: Health Care Reform and the Innovation Economy Yesterday, my scientist brother promised my eight-year-old son a new Hot Wheels car if he could research and explain how the microwave cooked his lunch. My son […] Christy Daggett Posted June 24, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid
Health Care, Taxes and Budget Everything comes with a cost: the perilous (and unnecessary) fate of the Portland Free Clinic Despite the historic opportunity offered by the federal funds available to expand Medicaid to cover Maine’s uninsured, millions of dollars earmarked for our state have been lost […] Christy Daggett Posted June 4, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Medicaid
Health Care Between the lines of stockholder calls, refusing Medicaid expansion bad for hospitals’ balance sheets First-quarter financial results are in, and the CEOs of some of America’s publicly-traded hospitals systems are finding Medicaid expansion is good for business. And they are reporting […] Christy Daggett Posted May 14, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid
Health Care, Jobs and Income Employer Mandate: Theory, practice and those pesky federal deficits . . . The Urban Institute (UI) recently released a new analysis of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate (Why Not Just Eliminate the Employer Mandate?) and what the […] Guest Blogger Posted May 13, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid
Health Care, Jobs and Income More evidence that accepting federal funds to expand health care is the right prescription for Maine A new study finds that Romneycare – the Massachusetts health insurance program that was used as a model for the Affordable Care Act – has prevented 230 […] Christy Daggett Posted May 6, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid
Health Care, Jobs and Income Small Businesses and the Self-employed Will Lose if Maine Does Not Accept Federal Health Care Funds Maine has a higher-than-average number of small businesses and one in seven Mainers is self-employed. More than half of Mainers are self-employed as farmers, loggers, fishermen, and […] Christy Daggett Posted April 22, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Economy, Education, Health Care, Jobs, Medicaid
Health Care, Jobs and Income The LePage Case against Medicaid Expansion: A House of Cards Built on Fallacies, Contradictions, and Ideology “We cannot go grab federal money without understanding just how much Maine taxpayers will wind up paying. Furthermore, it is incredibly irresponsible to put taxpayers on the […] Garrett Martin Posted April 18, 2014 Tags Affordable Care Act, Economy, Health Care, Medicaid
