LEWISTON — The Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the Maine Health Access Foundation, will sponsor a breakfast forum Tuesday, Jan. 21, at the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. The forum topic is The Affordable Care Act: What’s in it for my small business.” It will be held from 7 to 9:30 […]
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River Valley fire chiefs say federal insurance mandate doesn’t apply to their departments
RUMFORD — Chiefs of local volunteer fire departments in the River Valley region said they were either unaware of the Affordable Care Act ambiguity that affects volunteer firefighters or not concerned with it. According to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), employers with more than 50 full-time employees (or their […]
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Marketing efforts to uninsured youth ramp up
MIAMI (AP) — The so-called “young invincibles” are so important to the success of the Affordable Care Act that supporters and detractors are spending millions to reach them with racy ads, social media campaigns and celebrity endorsements. The president is even (gasp) asking their mothers to help convince them to sign up for insurance. The […]
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Rich Lowry: Pajama Boy an expression of the Obama vision
Pajama Boy’s place in Internet infamy was secured as soon as the insufferable man-child was tweeted out by Organizing for America. He is the face of a Web ad that is the latest effort by the Obama team to leverage the holidays for conversation about Obamacare. “Wear pajamas,” the ad reads. “Drink hot chocolate. Talk […]
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Selectmen change Oxford policy to avoid ACA requirements
OXFORD — Selectmen voted Thursday to amend the maximum number of hours part-time employees can work in order to avoid providing them with health insurance as required by the Affordable Care Act. The national health care law requires employers of more than 50 people to provide health care coverage to those who work 30 hours […]
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Obama administration says it’s on track to meet health care website goal, but questions remain
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it will meet its self-imposed deadline of fixing the troubled health care website so that 50,000 people can log in at the same time starting late Saturday. Yet questions remain about the stability of the site, the volume of traffic it can handle and the quality of the […]
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R. Melendy: Be patient with the ACA
Congratulations to the Sun Journal for its editorial (Nov. 14) about the Affordable Care Act. It was accurate, timely and informative for the general public. The editorial posed the question of why the law was passed initially and included the answers: — So people would not suffer and die as a result of not having […]
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L. Snowe Mello: Truth prevails in the end
I do not understand why the president of the United States misled Americans by telling us that, under the Affordable Care Act, we could keep our health insurance plans if we so wished. Now we find out that was untrue. Was President Obama aware of that? Evidence is showing that he was aware. People across […]
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J. Thompson: Make it work or get rid of it
I believe health care should be available to all, but I am extremely disappointed with the Affordable Care Act. When the act was introduced, I was skeptical and knew that making insurance companies include benefits such as pre-existing conditions, maternity/pediatric care, while keeping dependents on policies until 26 years old, etc., would increase costs to […]
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N. Bourgoin: Affordable Care Act
A bill that was put together by Democrats behind closed doors, so determined to have it implemented that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was quoted as saying, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” Not having been read, it was approved by a Democratic House and Democratic […]