BRUNSWICK (AP) — Brunswick’s Planning Board is scheduled to review two separate Bowdoin College building projects this week. The board meets Tuesday to discuss a plan by the school to tear down a building on Maine Street and replace it with a new administrative office building, as well as a proposal to turn the former […]
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Maine Med gets approval for $40M expansion
PORTLAND (AP) — Maine Medical Center has received final state approval for a $40 million expansion. The Portland hospital plans to add five new operating rooms and create a special cardiac operating room for the most critically ill patients. The 40,000-square-foot expansion will help ease a space crunch. Existing operating rooms are used at a […]
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Democrats trying to grow ‘bipartisan coalition’ to expand MaineCare
AUGUSTA — A key committee of the Legislature tabled a bill Wednesday that would vastly expand the state’s Medicaid program, as Democratic lawmakers worked to build a bipartisan coalition to support the expansion. The measure, LD 1578, is similar to two others vetoed by Republican Gov. Paul LePage in 2013. Further discussion was postponed by […]
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Analysis: Not all Republicans oppose Medicaid expansion for Maine
AUGUSTA — A handful of Republican lawmakers, if they haven’t already, are about to become the most popular — or, depending on your perspective — among the most reviled legislators in the weeks ahead. “There is a fair amount of pressure coming from both sides,” Rep. Corey Wilson, R-Augusta, said. Wilson, a first-term legislator, is […]
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In wall of GOP Medicaid expansion opposition, a crack appears
AUGUSTA — The House’s top Democrat on Wednesday morning presented what he called a “compromise” bill to expand Medicaid in the state to roughly 70,000 of the poorest Mainers. It’s the first glimpse at what Democrats, who hold a majority in the Legislature, hope will be a bill that can gain enough Republican support to […]
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Hundreds demand expansion of Medicaid
AUGUSTA (AP) — Hundreds gathered at the Maine Statehouse on Wednesday urging lawmakers to expand Medicaid under the federal health care overhaul as the Democratic-controlled Legislature began its work for the new session. The presence of the roughly 350 people calling for Medicaid expansion foreshadows what’s certain to be another fiery debate in the Legislature […]
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Hundreds rally at State House in full-court press on Medicaid expansion
While Mainers who have lost their health care coverage or are not eligible for MaineCare without expansion told their stories, the political challenge of winning expansion this session was as clear as the broadcast from Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s television, beaming down his welfare-reform message on the assembled activists: “Maine’s Medicaid program is crowding out […]
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New Vineyard library expansion project begins
NEW VINEYARD — A worker from Thorndike & Sons of Strong was digging a trench Thursday for a new water line as part of an expansion of the New Vineyard Public Library on Lake Street. The footings were poured for the addition Wednesday, Bruce Turcotte, chairman of the Library Expansion Committee, said. The library is […]
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Obamacare advisory panel steers clear of advocating for Medicaid expansion
AUGUSTA — A committee charged with overseeing the implementation of the federal Affordable Care Act in Maine shied away Monday from pushing the Legislature and Gov. Paul LePage on the controversial issue of expanding Medicaid eligibility in Maine even though the majority of its members favor it. Though all but one member of the Maine […]