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The many causes of noise pollution and the harm they cause to your health and well being
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Nurses rallied in Portland today against the proposed Medicaid cuts in the budget bill that they say prevent thousands of Mainers from receiving the care they need.
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Health care advocates say proposed cuts to Medicaid could endanger Maine hospitals that are already struggling to operate.
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The Democratic governor laid out her concerns in a letter to the state's congressional delegation this week as the Senate continues work on the bill, which contains key aspects of President Trump's domestic agenda.
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Mainspring, a new social service collective in Kittery, has a growing clientele. With federal cuts looming, advocates are sounding the alarm.
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More than 64,000 Mainers have health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace. But state officials and health care advocates say that many would lose coverage under proposed changes in the Congressional budget bill.
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More than three weeks into a computer and phone system outage at Central Maine Healthcare, patients say they're still having a hard time reaching their doctors, accessing medical records, getting prescriptions refilled and scheduling appointments.
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King told reporters the bill as written would be devastating for Maine hospitals and patients as well as food aid recipients, and would tax lower-income Mainers more heavily than higher-income Mainers.
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More than 38,000 adult Mainers with disabilities are enrolled in MaineCare, the state version of Medicaid. Advocates say the future of programs that help people with disabilities live in the community is at risk if Congress slashes hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid as proposed under the pending budget bill.
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During a virtual press conference Tuesday, Advocates raised concerns about possible cuts to funding for family planning services other than abortion, and about federal Medicaid restrictions that Planned Parenthood of Northern New England calls a "back door abortion ban.”
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Here in Maine, state officials, health care providers, and advocates say the proposed cuts would have drastic consequences.
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The Supreme Court's decision has no effect on Maine, which currently has no bans restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors.