Health Care

Choices: Maine is Burning: Soaring Healthcare Costs Fuel the Fire

Containing health care costs is critical to Maine’s future economy. In this issue of Choices, we provide an edited version of an October 2008 speech given by […]

Jody Harris

Posted January 9, 2009

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Veto Health Care?

Augusta — Some issues are black and white and some issues have clear winners and losers, but when it comes to health care, there isn’t a single […]

Posted May 27, 2008

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Choices: Quality, Affordable Health Care: A Work in Progress, a Window of Opportunity

The American people have been waiting a long time for private markets and the federal government to devise workable solutions to the rising cost of health care […]

Jody Harris

Posted May 23, 2008

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MaineCare Costs

The Real Story Behind the NumbersTuesday March 4th, 2008Kurt WiseMaine Center for Economic Policy Augusta — This week, in collaboration with Maine Equal Justice Partners (MEJP), the […]

Posted March 4, 2008

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Choices: MaineCare Costs: The real story behind the numbers

Currently, large and growing revenue shortfalls are pushing the state budget out of balance. In this tightening fiscal climate, there is even more debate than usual about […]

Jody Harris

Posted February 29, 2008

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Continued Drop in Employer-based Health Coverage Highlights Importance of Maine’s Public Health Care Coverage

Monday October 29th, 2007 The Washington DC-based Economic Policy Institute released today a report called The Erosion of Employment-Based Insurance , by EPI economist Elise Gould , […]

Posted October 29, 2007

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New Data Find 124,000 Mainers Lack Health Insurance

Maine’s Uninsured – 1 out of 10 Mainers Lacks Health Insurance: Approximately 124,000 or 9.5 percent of Mainers did not have health insurance coverage in the 2004-2006 […]

Posted August 28, 2007

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Survey Finds Maine Small Businesses Shifted Health Care Costs to Employees in Recent Years

(Augusta, ME) The Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) released today the findings from a 2004 survey of Maine small businesses, co-authored by Lisa Pohlmann and Frank […]

Posted July 13, 2005

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Choices: Maine is Burning: Soaring Healthcare Costs Fuel the Fire

Veto Health Care?

Choices: Quality, Affordable Health Care: A Work in Progress, a Window of Opportunity

MaineCare Costs

Choices: MaineCare Costs: The real story behind the numbers

Continued Drop in Employer-based Health Coverage Highlights Importance of Maine’s Public Health Care Coverage

New Data Find 124,000 Mainers Lack Health Insurance

Survey Finds Maine Small Businesses Shifted Health Care Costs to Employees in Recent Years