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Taxes and Budget

Maine GOP proposes cuts to health care, housing, college aid, and paid leave

In a series of votes last Tuesday, Republicans in Maine’s House and Senate didn’t just block an urgent supplemental budget measure to ensure health care providers get […]

James Myall
Posted February 20, 2025
Tags Budget, Education, Higher Education, Medicaid, Paid Family and Medical Leave, Revenue
Health Care, Taxes and Budget

GOP lawmakers threaten Medicaid funding, putting rural hospitals at risk

At a glance: Some Maine lawmakers are blocking a budget they previously supported, delaying funds needed for hospitals and health care providers Many hospitals, especially in rural […]

James Myall
Posted February 10, 2025
Tags Budget, Health Care, Medicaid
Taxes and Budget

Maine can’t afford Trump’s dangerous plans to gut Medicaid

If the election taught us anything, it’s that the cost of living is way too high. So why are we hearing about cuts that would make health […]

Bangor Daily News
Posted December 20, 2024
Tags Budget, Medicaid, Tax Breaks, Tax Fairness, Taxes
Health Care

Wednesday Sit-Down: Changes to Medicaid looming

In this week’s Wednesday Sit-Down, Garrett Martin, CEO of the Maine Center of Economic Policy, sits down with CBS 13 to discuss upcoming changes to Medicaid. Click […]

WGME
Posted December 11, 2024
Tags Federal, Medicaid, Wednesday Sit Down
Health Care

Trump plans risk health coverage for Mainers and would cost the state millions

At a glance: Plans to cut Medicaid include ending its expansion under the Affordable Care Act, reducing federal funding, introducing block grants (a fixed amount of money), […]

James Myall
Posted December 6, 2024
Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Medicaid, Trump Tax Cuts
Taxes and Budget

New budget projections highlight the need to get serious about raising revenue

Update: Read MECEP’s November 25, 2024 statement on the revised revenue forecast. At a glance:  Projected budget shortfalls are nothing new  Ultimately lawmakers must work with the […]

James Myall
Posted October 7, 2024
Tags Budget, Direct Care Work, Education, Health Care, K-12 Education, Medicaid, Revenue
Health Care, Taxes and Budget

Campaign to extend MaineCare coverage to all eligible noncitizens vows to fight on

“Maine should be a place where all of us, regardless of background or origin, can get health care when we need it. Unfortunately, this week the Maine […]

Beacon
Posted June 28, 2023
Tags Health Care, Immigration, Medicaid
Health Care, Taxes and Budget

Bill to extend MaineCare coverage to noncitizens wins support in Maine House

Groups supporting the proposal include Maine Equal Justice, Maine Center for Economic Policy, Presente! Maine, Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, the ACLU of Maine, American Cancer Society […]

Portland Press Herald
Posted June 26, 2023
Tags Health Care, Immigration, Medicaid
Taxes and Budget

New year, new budgets, new ways to put working families first

In passing the 2023 budget plan, our representatives in Congress took an important step in providing the kinds of tools Maine working families said they need, including […]

MECEP
Posted January 5, 2023
Tags Budget, Child Tax Credit, Children, Education, Federal, Higher Education, Housing, Medicaid, Wages
Health Care

MaineCare Expansion at 4: Greater Care, Healthier Hospitals, Stronger Economy

On January 3, 2019, Governor Janet Mills signed her first executive order, implementing the expansion of MaineCare, Maine’s Medicaid program, which had been approved by voters in […]

James Myall
Posted January 3, 2023
Tags Health Care, Immigration, Medicaid
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