PORTLAND — Mainers will likely get another option under the Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace next year. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care told the Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/1i7pi52 ) that it plans to join a co-op, Maine Community Health Options, and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, in the marketplace. An official said Harvard Pilgrim, which […]
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Survey: Mainers struggle to pay medical bills — even those with insurance
Many Maine residents, even those with health insurance, struggle to afford their medical bills, a new statewide survey has found. While the poorest Mainers reported the most difficulty affording health services, more than a quarter of residents with health coverage ran into trouble paying medical bills, according to the survey released Wednesday by the Maine […]
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L. Moore: Obamacare works well for me
The political cartoon in the March 15 Sun Journal was childish and pathetic. The Affordable Care Act is our president sending a train off a bridge? Really? In my family’s case, that is far from the truth. We are an ACA success story. In 2013, I left a full-time job, and my family lost the […]
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No health insurance? You have 15 days and counting
LEWISTON — Nearly every day, Cheri-Ann Parris — an enthusiastic 23-year-old Bates College grad with a warm Barbados accent — approaches perfect strangers and talks up the Affordable Care Act. It’s the law. There’s a deadline. And, she likes to add, isn’t health insurance a good thing to have? “‘You need to take care of […]
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LePage administration continues campaign against Medicaid expansion
Agriculture Commissioner Walter Whitcomb said the state’s natural resource agencies — Agriculture, Conservation, Marine Resources, Environmental Protection, and Inland Fisheries and Wildlife — had lost $13 million in state funding in just five years, a reduction he attributes to regular annual shortfalls in the the Department of Health and Human Services, which administers MaineCare. “We […]
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C. Saddlemire: Poorest Mainers being left out
Obamacare has made it possible for millions of Americans to have the affordable health insurance they deserve, and I’m one of them. During the past two years, while serving on City Council and attending graduate school, I earned very little income and found the most affordable way to maintain some health insurance coverage was a […]
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ACA giving health care . . . and options
There was a young mother out there working 40 hours a week who wanted to work fewer hours so she could spend time with a child. Then there was a 62-year-old who had saved enough money to retire and wanted to. There was a person with a great idea who wanted to develop her own […]
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Affordable Care Act topic for breakfast forum
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 […]