Health Care News

New survey on Mainers’ views of health care affordability and accessibility

June 19, 2023

On May 11, Consumers for Affordable Health Care (CAHC), a nonprofit focused on helping Mainers access health insurance and care, released the results of a survey focused on the affordability and accessibility of health care . . . read more »

LTE: Poll of Mainers confirms what we know about health care

May 31, 2023

In a May 27, 2023, letter to the editor in the Portland Press Herald, Michael Bacon of Westbrook discusses the results of a recent survey commissioned by Consumers for Affordable Health Care about Maine voters’ . . . read more »

Call to Action: Medicare for All Act to be reintroduced May 16

May 11, 2023

Exciting news! The Medicare for All Act, which expands on and improves Medicare and includes all U.S. residents, will be reintroduced in both the House and Senate on May 16. Although action in the House . . . read more »

Call to Action: Testify for the right to health care for Maine

May 6, 2023

This winter, Maine Senator Craig Hickman introduced a bill that would begin the process of adding a right to health care to Maine’s constitution. The resolution (LD 590) is co-sponsored by Senate President Troy Jackson, . . . read more »

Op-ed: ‘Publicly funded health care is the answer’

April 23, 2023

Maine AllCare volunteer Dan Bryant, a retired physician from Cape Elizabeth responded to a recent opinion piece on burnout and moral injury in health care, and how a simplified, publicly funded, universal health care system . . . read more »

Between a rock and a hard place

April 19, 2023

How our system hurts medical workers and how universal health care could help Burnout, workforce distress, moral injury: These terms have different shades of meaning but all point to a growing crisis in medical workers, . . . read more »

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 »