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Reflecting on the passing year and looking ahead to the new

December 31, 2023

As we move through the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, we look back on what we’ve accomplished together and what has happened in the movement for health care for all, in Maine . . . read more »

HJM: British Nat’l Health Service Crippled by Privatization and Austerity Funding

December 26, 2023

From the Health Justice Monitor, current news in context from Jim Kahn, Emeritus Professor of Health Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health at the University of California, San Francisco. A NY Times opinion video lays it . . . read more »

Maine Gun Safety Coalition

December 18, 2023

Gun violence is a public health issue—take action in the new year Maine AllCare has signed on as a supporting organization of the Maine Gun Safety Coalition‘s 2024 campaign for four pieces of common sense . . . read more »

Health Care Hope for the Holidays: SBUHCA gains momentum

December 13, 2023

A national health care system that includes everyone and puts people over profits is Maine AllCare’s ultimate goal, but given the perennial gridlock in Congress action at the state level is one of the most . . . read more »

HJM: Implosion of Commercial Health Insurance

December 8, 2023

From the Health Justice Monitor, current news in context from Drew Altman of Kaiser Family Foundation with commentary by Don McCanne, retired family practitioner and health policy expert. Commercial health insurance, on a decades-long decline . . . read more »

LTE: Speaking out on health care

November 28, 2023

A handful of small stickers in red, white, and blue that say "I Voted" scattered across a white surface.

Published by the Ellsworth American, Nov. 16: Absent from most reporting of Nov. 7 election results, which focused on the eight state referendums, was the outcome of Penobscot’s town referendum on health care. The resolution . . . read more »

Op-Ed: A chance to send a message on universal health care

October 27, 2023

Person in blue scrubs with a stethoscope around their neck and green gloves on their hands holds a patient's hand, and the words A chance to send a message on universal health care over the image.

David Jolly, a Maine AllCare board member and resident of the small town of Penobscot in Hancock County, is leading a pilot project to put the question of universal health care directly to voters at . . . read more »

Maine Medical Association releases bold policy statement on health care reform

October 25, 2023

Joaquin Falcon, field representative for the American Medical Association, holds a bumper sticker saying Healthcare for Everyone in Maine, MaineAllCare.org, at the Maine Medical Association annual meeting, September 2023.

Big news! Maine doctors speak up for publicly funded, universal health care The Maine Medical Association adopted a new policy on health care reform at their annual meeting in Portland in early September, calling for . . . read more »

Good energy and lots of support at Common Ground

October 1, 2023

Small crowd near table with blue, white, and green cloth and large sign in blue and red with white tent wall in background

More than 60,000 people attended the Common Ground Country Fair from September 22–24, and it seemed like most of them came through the Social and Political Action tent! Our table was busy much of the . . . read more »

LTE: Kudos to ME Medical Association’s call for reform

September 29, 2023

The health policy statement – in favor of universal care – shows that the group recognizes the need to put patients’ and caregivers’ interests first. The Maine Medical Association is to be commended for its . . . read more »