Hard-to-find dental care for 3,000 of the mentally ill and disabled would vanish under the governor’s budget.
Kelley Bouchard
Staff Writer
Kelley writes about Maine businesses large and small, focusing on economic development, workforce initiatives and the state’s leading business organizations. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, immigration, education, transportation, history, human rights, health and elder care, the environment and the housing crisis. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. She previously worked at the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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LePage budget includes some of funds demanded by lawsuit
Required services for 85 of 115 mentally impaired adults would be provided, but a lawyer calls it ‘a shell game.’
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Advocates for disabled looking to fill Medicaid slots in law suit
The LePage administration has included $6.7 million in its proposed state budget to provide group-home and other services to some of the 176 mentally disabled Mainers represented in a pending class-action lawsuit.
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Lawsuit targets LePage in defense of mentally impaired
The administration has failed to provide group-home care and other required services to more than 100 intellectually and developmentally impaired adults, the suit says.
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Maine speakers testify against human services cutbacks
Nearly 100 people speak out against Gov. Paul LePage’s proposed cuts to the state DHHS budget.
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Oversight of Maine health-insurance fund questioned
The board in control of fees used to keep down rates on individual policies acts in private.
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Health insurance reform faces scrutiny
Critics say the 2011 law hurt small, rural firms; backers counter that it has increased options and cut costs.
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LePage wants to pay off hospital debt
He says if the Legislature approves his plan, then he will issue the $105 million in voter-approved bonds.
Posted inBusiness, News
Mercy, Eastern Maine hospital groups closer to merger
The two hospital groups will now seek state, federal and Vatican approvals.
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MaineCare budget cuts loom over thousands
An estimated 20,000 will be affected by federally approved eligibility changes. Many expect to struggle to get health care and make ends meet.