Dear Mr. President: You lied. More often than anyone can count you’ve said some version of the following in defense of the Affordable Care Act: “If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period.” We learn now that perhaps as many as 2 million Americans cannot, in fact, do […]
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Rich Lowry: Democrats must own up to Obamacare’s many failures
Henry Waxman made a plea Wednesday at the end of a House hearing grilling Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The California Democrat asked Republicans to reach across the aisle to work with Democrats to improve Obamacare. Yes, Henry Waxman, who has made a career of ideological witch hunts and smash-mouth partisanship, wants a […]
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Medicare benefits could be affected by changing counties
LIVERMORE FALLS — If Livermore Falls voters OK a move from Androscoggin County to Franklin County in the Nov. 5 referendum, the Medicare benefits for some residents could be affected. “I want to make sure the property taxes address my cost in health insurance,” said resident Ron Chadwick. He has heard from other people who […]
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Obama blames ‘bad apple’ insurers for canceled coverage
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that “bad apple” insurance companies, not his signature healthcare law, are to blame for hundreds of thousands of people losing their coverage in the past few weeks. As administration officials scrambled to fix technical problems on an online insurance marketplace that is central to the success of the Affordable […]
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River Valley residents get info on Obamacare
MEXICO — The River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition held its monthly networking meeting Wednesday afternoon at the new Med-Care building, where residents heard a presentation on the Affordable Care Act. Jake Grindle, the health marketplace navigator and program specialist for Western Maine Community Action, fielded questions about the act and how it will affect people […]
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Healthcare.gov site down again; HHS Secretary Sebelius faces grilling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans said Sunday they intend to press Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the Obama administration’s troubled launch of healthcare.gov, the online portal to buy insurance — even as the website suffered yet another setback. A component of the online system that has been working relatively well experienced an outage […]
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A. Jacobs: Politicians are public servants
The public needs to wake up. If the Affordable Care Act (debatable that it is affordable) is so great, why are all Washington legislators and their staff exempt from the individual mandate forced on the public? And why wasn’t President Obama the first to sign up? Washington is also trying to scare people into thinking […]
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T. Shields: Hidden costs of Obamacare
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has been established in law. The Supreme Court said it is constitutional only if considered as a tax. It was voted and disgracefully passed by a Democrat-majority Congress of 2008-2010 after congressmen had the approximately 1,000-page document for two days. None of the political leaders said they had a thorough […]
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ACA aware: Watch out for scams, cons and fraud
State officials have a message for you: No one from the government will be calling to sell you insurance. If someone does, it’s a scam. Also, that person calling to set you up with a new “Obamacare” insurance card? Scam. That site that says it’ll sign you up for insurance from the marketplace before everyone […]
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Anthem plan draws praise, criticism
AUGUSTA — Central Maine Healthcare employees, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield leaders and others spent hours Monday trying to sway the head of the Maine Bureau of Insurance. Anthem’s plan to move thousands of individual policyholders into a plan that strictly limits their doctors and hospitals is horrible — or great — depending on […]