How to shop for new insurance if you lose Medicaid coverage

States will start cutting people from the government-funded plans when they no longer qualify based on income.

In nursing homes, impoverished residents live final days on pennies

A half-century-old bit of American bureaucracy is leaving hundreds of thousands of nursing home residents in an unthinkable bind: Living on as little as $30 a month.

Maine Voices: Outdated law denies appropriate care to people with serious brain disorders

Hospital violence, in Maine as elsewhere, can be traced right back to a federal law from 1965.

Our View: Maine’s new surplus should fund mental health

State refund checks will help offset inflationary pressures on households, but higher prices are not our only problem.

Maine Voices: Inequities in mental health treatment are health care’s greatest injustice

Laws like the one that keeps Medicaid from covering inpatient behavioral care are not only discriminatory but also can have dire consequences for Maine families.

Maine Voices: Funding must follow mandate for Medicaid providers

People who care for Medicaid recipients deserve a living wage – but their employers can’t afford to pay it unless Maine raises the reimbursement rate.

Pandemic swells Medicaid enrollment to record 80 million people

Maine Voices: A car crash left me paralyzed. Home care workers let me work, support my family

When caregivers have economic stability, people with disabilities do, too. Maine’s senators should listen to people like me who support the American Jobs Plan.

Our View: Stop shutting immigrants out of health coverage in Maine

A lesson of COVID that we should never forget is that we all have a stake in each other’s health.

Committee approves bill on party lines to restore MaineCare benefits to noncitizen immigrants

The measure cleared the Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee with majority Democrats favoring the change and Republicans opposing it.