FARMINGTON — Affordable Care Act educational meeting will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 28 and 29, at the Fairbanks Meeting House. The goal of the meeting is to clear any confusion about the ACA and the community members’ options and responsibilities. This is free to attend with local experts from The […]
Affordable Care Act
Health insurance at risk
As a registered nurse, I see people every day who can’t afford the health care that they need and deserve. Working Mainers and seniors regularly have to choose between paying for life-saving medicine and making rent or even putting enough food on the table. It is heartbreaking that, in the richest country in the world, […]
Save our health care
I am concerned about all the turmoil in Washington, D.C., about keeping (with amendments) the Affordable Care Act or terminating it and installing some Republican version. Mark Shields, syndicated reporter/journalist, and David Brooks discussed the health care insurance issue on the PBS News Hour on Sept. 22. Shields said the effect of the latest Republican […]
A right to health care
I have to say that I am shocked that a country like America does not see access to health care as a human right. It makes me nervous to know that Congress is in the process of trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which has provided some basic (and what one would assume to […]
Better solution for health care
In the June 29 Sun Journal, there was a very mean and misleading cartoon on the editorial page. The Affordable Care Act is not a train wreck or plane crash. It has made insurance available to many not previously insured. It would have been better if it weren’t for many who now want it repealed. […]
Everyone needs health care
In his letter (June 6), Richard Grover asks about the differences between Obamacare (ACA) and Trumpcare (AHCA). According to CNN Money (March 27) “How Obamacare Affects Everyone” — “under Obamacare, senior citizens pay less for Medicare coverage and for their prescription drugs. Many people receive free contraceptives, mammograms, colonoscopies and cholesterol tests. And those with […]
Better health insurance
I am a member of an immigrant family and in my third year of college. My mother has Medicaid insurance due to her not being able to work. It has been reported that some 24 million people are projected to lose their health insurance coverage if or when the Affordable Care Act gets repealed. My […]
Preserve decent health care options
It is a travesty that Congress is even considering “replacing” the Affordable Care Act with a program that will cut off care for as many as 23 million people and eliminate many of its popular and important provisions. And to have Congressman Bruce Poliquin (where are you Bruce?) vote in favor of the bill is […]
Save health care coverage
I hope Congress protects the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid programs across the country and here in Maine. I am very disappointed with the bill that the House passed, and I can’t believe that Rep. Bruce Poliquin supported it. I need health care insurance to go to my doctor and for my prescriptions at the […]
Unacceptable health care
Sadly, continued efforts to emasculate or destroy the Affordable Care Act are being pursued by the Republicans, including Maine’s Rep. Bruce Poliquin. Certainly there are problems with the ACA, but with political will and a sense of responsibility to the American people, they can be easily corrected. Health care is a right, as every other […]