Democrats and health care advocates say coverage should be free for the state’s poorest residents.
Joe Lawlor
Staff Writer
Joe Lawlor writes about health and human services for the Press Herald. A 24-year newspaper veteran, Lawlor has worked in Ohio, Michigan and Virginia before relocating to Maine in 2013 to join the Press Herald. He is still considered “from away” but since then, he has learned what a “dooryard” is, eaten “whoopie pies” drank Moxie and boiled some “lobstahs.” The stories he enjoys most are when he learns something and meeting inspiring people.
He lives in South Portland - aka “SoPo” - with his wife, Melanie, and two school-age children.
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Maine health officials trying to sign up immigrants, hard-to-reach populations
More than 25,000 Mainers have signed up for health care coverage through ACA
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Maine child care licensing supervisor reassigned
The DHHS will make changes – including significantly expanding staff – after an internal review over its handling of reports of abuse.
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Maine lawmakers vote to cancel LePage consultant’s contract
The Alexander Group won a $925,000 no-bid contract to look at a number of issues, with its first report recommending against Medicaid expansion.
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Maine panel to probe DHHS inaction on child-abuse reports
Legislators respond to accounts of day care reports being ignored by managers for months.
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Maine panel endorses changes to troubled MaineCare rides system
The bill would make it easier for local nonprofits to win contracts in hopes of fixing the rides-for-poor program.
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Ex-DHHS inspectors say Maine managers ignored child abuse
State officials disagree and say improvements are coming.
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Let police, public give lifesaving drug, Maine panel says
In a party-line vote, the panel endorses a bill to expand who can administer naloxone in an opiate overdose emergency.
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Legislature to subpoena CDC officials in document shredding probe
The Government Oversight Committee votes to issue subpoenas after administration officials decline to answer questions about ordering an employee to shred documents relating to a grant program.
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MaineCare application asks personal questions, such as where a child was conceived
DHHS says questions on the form have a purpose and are not meant to intrude, but others object.