Earlier Tuesday, the president-elect also tapped Wall Street executive and campaign adviser Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department.
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Maine’s long-term care facilities struggle amid labor shortage
The shortage affects nursing home and assisted-living jobs of all kinds, from nurses and personal care assistants, to food service workers and maintenance staff.
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Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Biden administration slow to act as millions booted off Medicaid, advocates say
Texas, Florida and Arkansas account for a quarter of the country’s disenrollments.
Posted inHealth
Many states expanding Medicaid programs to provide dental care to their poorest residents
A growing number of states are offering dental care to low-income adults who once had to rely on charity or the emergency room to treat their tooth problems.
Posted inLocal & State, News
New law will put more dollars into pockets of older, low-income Mainers
About 19,000 Maine residents over 65, many of them low-income women living alone, will be made eligible for the program under the new law.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
More than 1 million people dropped from Medicaid as states start post-pandemic purge of rolls
More than 93 million people were enrolled as of February.
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Kicked off Medicaid: Millions at risk as states trim rolls
An unprecedented nationwide review of the 84 million enrollees over the next year will require states to remove people whose incomes are now too high for the federal-state program.
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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.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World, News
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.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Outdated law denies appropriate care to people with serious brain disorders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.