NORWAY — Residents will vote on a $4.8 million budget at their annual town meeting Monday, June 19. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School Forum, where residents will consider the 39-article warrant. The recommended budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year is an increase of $113,476 over the previous […]
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Report: More kids going without health coverage in Maine
PORTLAND (AP) — A new report says the percentage of Maine children without health care coverage grew 50 percent in Maine during a five-year period that coincided with tightened Medicaid eligibility guidelines and the governor’s decision not to expand Medicaid. Neither of those actions by the LePage administration affected coverage for children, but child welfare […]
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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 […]
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Whose health care plan is better?
I would like to know who is telling the truth about the Obamacare (ACA) plan and the Trumpcare (AHCA) plan. I read that millions of people have been priced out of the ACA plan due to huge price increases and deductibles so high as to be useless to average people. Democrats claim that millions of […]
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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some 24 million people are projected to lose their health insurance coverage if or when the Affordable Care Act gets repealed.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 […]
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A different view
Reading the Opinion section of the newspaper just makes my day. I either have to laugh or cry at what some people truly believe. Take David Griffiths’ letter (May 25) — Democrats state that most conservatives are lying, but look at the facts. Just in the past few days there was a bill in the […]
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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 […]
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Coverage for all Americans
This nation’s leaders continue to struggle with the very difficult health care problem. The House-approved AHCA is the most recent attempt but, as written, it will make care unaffordable and inaccessible to millions of Americans, particularly to those beyond age 50. Fortunately, Maine’s two senators both agree that major changes in the House version are […]
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Call the insurance company
The cost of health care has become a gigantic problem. Understanding that overhead (doctors, nurses, food service, etc.) is very high, a hospital stay of any length of time can ruin a person or family financially. As teachers trying to raise two children in the ’70s on our salaries, it was difficult. We could not […]
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Questions about health care
Privilege is a special right, advantage or immunity granted to a person or group. If health care access is accepted as a privilege, then, by definition, there must be people who are excluded. To those who believe health care is a privilege, consider this scenario: John, a healthy employed 27-year-old has not been granted the […]