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 […]
Posted inMaine
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 […]
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In January, we start giving up millions
Suppose, just suppose, other states were receiving millions of dollars in federal aid to help support their doctors and hospitals, money that was unavailable to us in Maine. We’d be sore about that. Outraged would be more like it. But that is exactly what will begin happening on Jan. 1, 2014, when the federal government […]
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Scarborough nonprofit collects millions of dollars in usable medical supplies thrown out by hospitals
SCARBOROUGH — Not far from a bin filled with $25 adhesive bandages, nurse Elizabeth McLellan checked the expiration dates on a number of bags of IV solutions, each one worth about $100 in the American medical supplies market — and as it turns out, each one with a usable lifespan that reaches deep into 2014 […]
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Maine Women’s Network meeting topic announced
LEWISTON — The Androscoggin Chapter of the Maine Women’s Network invites members, guests and the general public to its next meeting Wednesday, Sept. 11, at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston. Lunch will begin promptly at 11:30 a.m. The topic will be “The Affordable Care Act — What Does This Mean for Businesses?” Speakers will […]