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Please sign if you haven’t already and share widely – it’s not too late to add your voice!
On November 3, Maine AllCare will visit our congressional offices in DC to advocate for healthcare in shutdown negotiations and deliver your signatures on this petition calling for Medicare for All and State-Based Universal Healthcare.
Maine state Senator Rachel Talbot Ross speaks at the reintroduction of the State Based Universal Health Care Act in Washington DC in July 2025.
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| Early this year, Maine AllCare championed legislation enacting a temporary one-year ban on private equity takeovers of our hospitals. Now, a state commission has convened in Augusta to strengthen healthcare protections amid recent facility closures across Maine. The 15-member group, chaired by Sen. Mike Tipping, is working to develop recommendations on antitrust laws and regulatory oversight for healthcare transactions, including private equity takeovers. |
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The commission has an upcoming deadline of December 10 to deliver its findings and recommendations to create more permanent safeguards for our state’s healthcare system. Commission materials can be found here – please reach out to us with any questions or to get involved! |
Safe Communities: Vote Yes on 2!
Question 2, on the Maine ballot this Nov 4th, is a citizen initiative that creates a red flag law empowering family or household members to petition a judge for temporary firearm restrictions when someone poses a danger to themselves or others. This lifesaving measure can help prevent both homicides and suicides in our communities. Read more about the red flag law and the Yes on 2 Campaign. |
Food assistance in our communities
Due to the government shutdown and pending new guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service, SNAP benefits will be paused starting Nov 1, affecting nearly 170,000 Mainers. Please consider donating to or volunteering at your local food pantry during this critical time to support our neighbors. For help finding information on other available resources, call 211 or text your zip code to 898-211. You can also visit 211Maine.org. |
| Volunteers Lynne, Louise (Board Member), Noreen, Debbie and our handsome 4-legged advocate Chloe |
Thank you for a successful Common Ground Fair event!
We had great conversations and shared many resources on how universal healthcare is possible in Maine. Over 130 new people signed up to keep in touch with our work! A special shoutout to our volunteers and to Board Members David Jolly and Tom Sterne for organizing and making it all possible. |
Maine AllCare – Our Story
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| Maine AllCare has been advocating for better health care in Maine for the last 15 years. We are a small group of Mainers, the majority of us volunteers, committed to bringing comprehensive, affordable health care to Maine. Over the years, Maine AllCare has rallied, testified, educated, organized, petitioned, researched, analyzed data, and built coalitions across the state to advance this cause, and will continue to do so. Thank you to those who have been a part of our journey to date, and welcome to those who are joining. |
Spotlight on David Jolly, Board Vice Chair
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| Dr. David Jolly, PhD, taught in the Department of Public Health Education at North Carolina Central University for 17 years, where he developed and taught a wide variety of courses in public health and health care policy. He also worked with the state public health department in NC and with other nonprofit organizations, including in pioneering work in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He has a long-held interest in health care access and has been an advocate for health care reform for decades. David began volunteering with the Maine AllCare Downeast chapter in 2018. He joined the board in January 2023, and currently serves as chair of the Education and Outreach committee. |
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| “I taught a policy course on access to health care at a historically Black university. For their first assignment students wrote about personal experiences with the U.S. health care system—their own or a family member’s. Their eye-opening stories were often maddening and/or gut-wrenching. They made clear the system is failing us, those who have been marginalized above all—and too often with tragic results.” |
Spotlight on Henk Goorhuis
Dr. Henk Goorhuis, MD, has been in Maine as an Emergency Medicine Physician for 30 years. He has worked at several urban and rural hospitals in Maine. He also served on a Maine hospital board for 5 years. He has been a treasurer for a clean election candidate in Auburn, Maine. |
| As an Emergency Physician he has seen the entire spectrum of our society. The inequality in our society, medical, financial, and other ways, adds frustration to the care of patients. His interest is in healthcare policy reform, giving presentations to groups with a focus on healthcare financing and on how major reform would actually add personal and financial freedom to patients, providers and the business environment in Maine. Henk has been a board member of Maine AllCare and served as the Maine AllCare board chair from 2016-2021. He is a co-founder of HealthCare for All Maine. |
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Thank you to all who volunteer their time in writing letters to the editors, op-eds, and testimony in support of publicly funded universal health care.
Our Board Member Michael Bacon leads a Letter to the Editor writing team. Email us at info@maineallcare.org if you’d like to join or just want help writing your own!
| Recent letters by us, volunteers, and community members include:
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Thank you for supporting our work towards healthcare for all Mainers!
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Recycle to support our work
Clynk is a simple way to support Maine AllCare’s work—just fill up a Clynk bag with your returnable bottles and cans, put on a MAC sticker, and drop them off at a nearby Hannaford store.
Clynk bags are available at participating Hannaford stores for a small fee. To get MAC stickers, contact us and we’ll put them in the mail to you.
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Our Mission
Maine AllCare promotes the establishment of publicly funded health care coverage for all Maine residents.
This system must be efficient, financially sound, politically sustainable, and must provide benefits fairly distributed to all.
We advocate that health care, a basic necessity, be treated as a public good, since it is fundamental to our well-being as individuals and as a democratic nation. |
