Health Care News

Call to Action: Help Stop REACH and protect Medicare

April 7, 2023

Improved Medicare for All is one way to reach our goal of health care for everyone in Maine—Everybody In, Nobody Out. But efforts to privatize original Medicare, including through ACO REACH, threaten the existence of . . . read more »

Physician demoralization and burnout getting more attention

February 22, 2023

Doctors Aren’t Burned Out From Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System. Eric Reinhart New York Times February 5, 2023 “Doctors have long diagnosed many of our sickest patients with “demoralization syndrome,” a condition commonly . . . read more »

Greed in U.S. health care

February 22, 2023

Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in U.S. Health Care Don Berwick January 30, 2023 JAMA Network “In the mosaic floor of the opulent atrium of a house excavated at Pompeii is a slogan . . . read more »

Call to Action: Help stop ACO REACH

December 21, 2022

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Pramila Jayapal recently released an important letter calling for companies that have a history of gaming Medicare and other public health programs to be excluded from ACO REACH. ACO REACH . . . read more »

Op-Ed: Seven deadly health care misunderstandings

November 23, 2022

In an opinion piece by Michael Bacon of Westbrook published in the Portland Press Herald on November 2, Bacon reflects on what he learned while collecting signatures for a campaign to get universal health care . . . read more »

How did health care reform fare in the election? 

November 19, 2022

While health care reform was not directly on the ballot in Maine or nationally in the November election, it did have a presence as well as some encouraging results. Let’s take a look at what . . . read more »

‘The way life could be’: health care for all

October 17, 2022

  Drs. Phil Caper and Geoff Gratwick were on the WERU radio show, “Maine: The Way Life Could Be,” on September 6 to talk about health care, health insurance, and how we can achieve affordable, . . . read more »

When nonprofit hospitals start acting like for-profits

October 4, 2022

From the Lown Institute: When nonprofit hospitals start acting like for-profits      

Majority of Americans unhappy with health care system: AP-NORC poll

September 20, 2022

From a September 12 report by PBS Newshour: “The poll reveals that public satisfaction with the U.S. health care system is remarkably low, with fewer than half of Americans saying it is generally handled well. . . . read more »

LTE: Facility fee bill only a stopgap

September 19, 2022

Letter to the editor by Larry Kaplan, M.D., MPA, published in the Portland Press Herald on September 7: Facility fee bill only a stopgap—Maine needs universal health care