As a doctor who serves on one jail’s Board of Visitors says, ‘No one should be sentenced to lack of health care.’
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Maine Voices: I’m a longtime nurse at Maine Medical Center, and I don’t support a union
Why would we pay dues that would give us benefits we already have and make the patient a secondary consideration?
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Maine official warns against Affordable Care Act enrollment scams
‘We’ve received complaints from consumers who purchased plans they thought provided comprehensive coverage, but that actually have very limited benefits,’ says Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa.
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Maine Democratic leaders pitch COVID-19 Patient Bill of Rights
Lawmakers hold a public hearing on L.D. 1, which would waive all copayments for testing and vaccinations.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Nation mourns 500,000 COVID deaths
Our worst disease outbreak in a century is still taking too many lives.
Posted inHealth, Kennebec Journal, Local & State
Four employees at Augusta kidney clinic expecting boys
Allyson Barter, Becky Berthiaume, Chelsea Rousseau and Cortney Gould of Fresenius Kidney Care are due in May or June.
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MaineHealth receives $12.8 million grant for rural health care research
It will use the funds, from the National Institutes of Health, to study ways to reduce the disparity in health care quality between urban and rural areas of the state.
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Insight: Rural health care in crisis
Here are five reforms the Biden administration can enact to turn around troubling trends.
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MaineHealth names Virginia medical executive as its next CEO
Dr. Andrew T. Mueller of Virginia-based Centra Health will replace current CEO Bill Caron when he retires this spring.
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Maine Voices: Seeing the immune-suppressed in the COVID pandemic
For people with invisible illnesses like Crohn’s disease to become a priority when vaccines are allocated, our stories need to be told.