"Maine Legislative Council: Welfare Reform Out, Medicaid Expansion In" (MPBN)

[eShirl]

GO DEMS! chance I might not lose MaineCare after all...

https://www.mpbn.net/News/MPBNNews/tabid/1159/ctl/ViewItem/mid/3762/ItemId/30729/Default.aspx

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While Republicans stake their political reputations on welfare reform, Democrats want Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act to be their defining issue. Lawmakers passed such a bill and came close to overriding the governor's veto earlier this year, and House Speaker Mark Eves says his bill to reinstitute the expansion is necessary if Maine is going to avert a health care crisis.

"We are losing, come January first, $700,000 a day, and 25,000 Mainers are going to lose their health care come January 1," Eves says. "We have a great opportunity here and that is why I'm very excited about the effort to make sure that 70,000 Mainers have health care."

Republican State Chair Rick Bennett accused Eves and other Democratic leaders of violating legislative rules that say a bill can't be introduced twice in the same two-year legislative term.

But the rules also allow for emergency measures, and Eves says that if health care isn't an emergency in this state, he doesn't know what is.

[luckyleftyme2]

1. rick bennett is gone next election

Bennett and his band of right wing do nothings will be gone next election-in the mean time we need to kick those heritage puppets in a corner and get on with the peoples business!
the puppet master is pulling the strings of the governor, Bennett and a few more well placed idiots!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I have held off getting insurance from the

marketplace in case they do the expansion. *fingers crossed*

[luckyleftyme2]

3. this may help

Our infamous governor has been polled the worst governor in the nation; I believe the expansion of Medicare is needed in a state like ours! we have a population of 1.3 million with a land area that is as large as the other new England states combined! Even a puppet for the heritage group ought to realize we can't run this state with only our tax money. why do you think New Hampshire roads are better than ours? They didn't use to be! It took a Maine engineering firm who had an office in Portsmouth to educate them back in the fifties! (the company was owned by republicans) -Now we got a bunch in office that want to take the world back to the fifties!(Maine started to wake up in the fifties and elected a democrat or two; they helped break the flow of our youth to other states for employment).