Heidi Brooks is running for House District 61 in Lewiston. Brooks is a well educated, common sense and caring person who has been involved in speaking up for the poor, the middle class, veterans, seniors and taxpayers in Lewiston, Augusta and Washington. Her leadership skills started as a top-10 student in high school. She has […]
Heidi Brooks
Posted inLetters
H. Brooks: Biased consultants
The LePage administration’s Department of Health and Human Services has hired the Alexander Group to study MaineCare, including accepting federal funds to provide health care for 69,500 Mainers. Taxpayers are paying this out-of-state consulting group $925,000 to tell the administration what it wants to hear. The group is biased toward cutting programs, an observation based […]
advertisement
Posted inOp-Eds
Heidi Brooks: Health care is a human right
On Sept. 15, the Sun Journal published a piece co-authored by several Republican legislators regarding the debate about whether Maine should accept federal funds for health care. A cornerstone of the Affordable Care Act is that states accept funds to provide 69,500 of Maine’s lowest income people health care through MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program. […]