Douglas Rooks’ column (Aug. 10) praising the ACA (Obamacare), saying it exceeded expectations, was a great example of how people form opinions and try to influence others using only information that supports their agenda.? The ACA is a well known disaster and it is really disappointing that Rooks would use the increase in number of […]
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ACA proponent: Ruling ‘nothing to panic about’
News Update: ACA to continue subsidies as courts contradict each other Despite a pair of dueling court rulings Tuesday — one that said people cannot use government tax breaks to buy health insurance through federally run Affordable Care Act marketplaces and one that said they can — proponents of the health care reform law said […]
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More money, less money: the effects of not expanding MaineCare
The head of the Portland Community Health Center and her chief financial officer sat down last week to figure out which bills they could pay. They don’t have the money to pay all of them. More than half of their patients are uninsured, up from about 30 percent a few years ago. The health center […]
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P. Cipolloso: Report was deceptive
Bangor Daily News reporter Jackie Farwell’s article, “Healthcare.gov shoppers paying $99 for premiums, on average” published June 19, was deceptive. The real news here is that the article’s cost data proves there is a 57 percent increase in average monthly premiums under Obamacare. Yet, Farwell touts how great it is that the premium paid by […]
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Froma Harrop: Massachusetts, not VA, as Obamacare’s future
Obamacare foes have portrayed the VA hospital scandal as a dystopian glimpse into the future of the Affordable Care Act. The temptation is understandable if one regards health care policy as just another battlefield for partisan strife. Not that the troubles at the Department of Veterans Affairs don’t offer tough lessons for the other side. […]
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S. Drane: Check the source of news
Marcel Morin’s letter (May 15) assumes a lot of his data has some truth. I’ll bet its from the same billionaires who support Fox Network’s so-called news. According to something I heard on C-Span, extremists (Koch brothers, etc.) pay Fox for more propaganda than the three major news networks combined. Morin sarcastically questioned President Obama’s […]
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E. Field: Not the full story
Responding to recent letters, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is not a fiasco at all. The fiasco was the start-up, which was fixed long ago. Millions of people are now relieved to have affordable insurance coverage. Federal debt has increased with every president. According to snopes.com, under Clinton the increase was 37 percent; George W. […]
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M. Morin: An extremely dangerous president
I recently received information from Citizens Against Government Waste that included a letter from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. The data included facts about Obamacare that reinforce my fear of Barack Obama as an extremely dangerous president. There is no question that he can read; what he doesn’t seem to understand is simple arithmetic — how […]
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Maine groups busy on last day for insurance sign-ups
LEWISTON — By midmorning Monday, the state’s only health insurance co-op was getting so many calls — How do I get insurance by the deadline? Did the federal marketplace send over my sign-up information yet? How do I make a payment? — that its CEO grabbed a free desk and started answering phones. So did […]
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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 […]