Why do Republicans, tea partiers and Libertarians value insurance and pharmaceutical company profits over affordable health care for hard-working, tax-paying citizens? As a child, I earned money doing chores for neighbors. As a member of two youth organizations, I did numerous public service projects. In college, I coordinated Hunger Awareness Week and organized the cleanup […]
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W. Cary: Others paid the subsidy
Lisa Moore of Harrison is pleased with the Affordable Care Act (letter, March 19). She wrote, “The president should be thanked …” But what about her friends and neighbors? They are paying the subsidy. I wonder if she forgot that part? Walter Cary, Lewiston
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C. Walther: Dealing with the big lie
It took me four months and dozens of hours on the phone with the national exchange (since Maine was wise enough not to attempt to create one) to replace the insurance policy I liked with another one under Obamacare. I thought I was finally squared away as of Feb. 1. But I just learned that […]
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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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Affordable Care Act help session in Lewiston-Auburn rescheduled
The free walk-in assistance event scheduled for Thursday to help people enroll in the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace has been rescheduled due to the storm. It will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 20, at the Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring St. Help sessions also are being held from 11 […]
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W. Lutz: America becoming dictatorship
Here we go again — President Obama changing the Affordable Care Act all on his own. I remember from my civics class that the Congress makes the laws. The president signs the legislation into law and then is required to enforce it. He doesn’t have the authority to change it or not enforce it just […]
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M. Lapointe: Uncle Sam needs you
Now come on, all you big, strong, healthy young men and women — Uncle Sam needs your help again. He needs you to sign up for Obamacare (Affordable Care Act). Without multitudes of young, healthy people paying for the medical costs of older, less healthy people, the Affordable Care Act becomes unaffordable. Don’t you young […]
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20,500 in Maine enroll in fed-run health exchange
AUGUSTA (AP) — About 20,500 Mainers have chosen an insurance plan on the federally-run exchange under the Affordable Care Act through January. The new figures released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday show that about 6,800 Mainers enrolled in plans last month. In January, the department said about 13,700 residents […]
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B. Sullivan: We have been delivered
Praise be! Our sainted socialist-in-chief has delivered us from dreaded job lock. Now that his horrific health care bill has eliminated millions of present and future jobs, we are free to pursue our dreams of being painters and poets. We can sit on our collective duffs and sculpt and scribe while the less enlightened go […]
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Froma Harrop: Good news found in CBO report about Obamacare
Rarely has a bad-news story offered so little real bad news. We refer to the Congressional Budget Office report that the Affordable Care Act may reduce the number of hours worked by the equivalent of 2.5 million full-time jobs. But to be precise, millions of workers will choose to cut their working hours. What’s bad […]