A nonprofit health care watchdog group puts Maine at the top of its state rankings for hospital safety. Sixteen of 20 Maine hospitals earned A grades from Leapfrog. Leapfrog says the grades are meant to show how safe hospitals are for patients. Central Maine Medical Center, Lewiston, St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Lewiston, and Franklin […]
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Consortium says it connects 200 rural health care facilities in New England
BANGOR — A consortium that is electronically linking rural and urban health care facilities across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont has hit a milestone. The Bangor-based New England Telehealth Consortium says it has now connected 200 facilities, marking the halfway point toward the 400 or so facilities in the consortium. The consortium is creating a […]
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L. Ryan: Smart, compassionate policy
Recently in New Hampshire a special panel voted to recommend that the Legislature meet in a special session this fall to vote to accept millions in federal health care funds beginning Jan. 1, 2014. The funding would bring health care access to tens of thousands of people and support new jobs at their hospitals. The […]
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ACA info meeting leaves some more confused
PARIS — An Affordable Care Act information session in the Paris Fire Station Tuesday evening offered a run-through of the new law, but left some still scratching their heads. “The biggest take-away for me is that this may confuse issues rather than make them more straightforward,” Bill Bryant said after the session. “Obviously there are more […]
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Federal Obamacare official does little to quell state health care panel’s concerns
AUGUSTA — A committee designed to advise state government on the roll-out of the federal Affordable Care Act met for the second time on Monday but ended up generating far more questions than answers. One of the questions everyone on the Health Exchange Advisory Committee had is how many Mainers have signed up for health […]
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R. Pineau: Single payer the way to go
I have been watching the people of Maine during the federal shutdown and the problem is health care. A young girl gets pregnant and she is lost. The fact is though, that her child is this country’s future. A woman gets pregnant and she doesn’t know how her child will be taken care of. Single […]
Posted inOur View
Suffocating from the high cost of meds
An asthma attack feels like breathing through a pillow that is being held to your face. No matter how hard you work to draw in breath, you can’t get enough air. Panic sets in, and it becomes even harder to breathe. In this country, nine people die of this chronic disease every day. Nine. Every […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Franklin, Oxford Hills, River Valley, The Franklin Journal
State to hold ACA info sessions in South Paris, Farmington
The Maine Bureau of Insurance will hold public sessions in South Paris and Farmington to provide information about the Affordable Care Act. The sessions will offer information about the new health insurance marketplace, also known as the exchange, as well as information on new health insurance plans being offered in Maine and the law’s other […]
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James Lysen: Keeping people healthy is the best solution
Recent letters and guest columns in the Sun Journal have raised issues concerning the recent failure of Maine to expand MaineCare, and attempts to obstruct the Affordable Care Act — the law of the land — that I would like to address. MaineCare expansion was favored by strong majorities in both the Maine Senate and […]
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Lawmakers hosting TV show on health care law
LEWISTON — State Sens. John Cleveland, D-Auburn, and Margaret Craven, D-Lewiston, are hosting a TV show on the local cable access channel in October that focuses on the Affordable Care Act. Their guests are Kevin Lewis, CEO of Lewiston-based Maine Community Health Options, and Mitchell Stein of Consumers for Affordable Health Care. The show, “Answers […]