Maine AllCare News Archives

Welcome Maine AllCare’s newest board member

January 30, 2023

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David Jolly spent his career in public health and education and brings that experience, as well as a long-held interest in health care access, as a chapter volunteer and now board member with Maine AllCare. . . . read more »

Call to Action: Help stop ACO REACH

December 21, 2022

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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 »

Giving thanks for YOU

November 29, 2022

Today we celebrate all the ways you give so that everyone will have health care… Writing letters Attending and speaking up at public hearings Hosting house parties Filling up Clynk bags Talking with friends and . . . read more »

Op-Ed: Seven Deadly Health Care Misunderstandings

November 23, 2022

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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 »

Nov. 2022 Newsletter: Health care for all in the midterms

November 23, 2022

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Health care for all in the midterms 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 . . . read more »

How did health care reform fare in the election?

November 19, 2022

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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 »

Sept. 2022 Newsletter: Medicare Advantage

October 4, 2022

Medicare Advantage: Digging Deeper In our June newsletter we focused on problems associated with Direct Contracting Entities (DCEs), ACO-REACH, and Medicare Advantage, how these programs threaten traditional Medicare, and stories of people who’ve suffered because . . . read more »

Op-Ed: How to remove obstacles to universal health care

September 19, 2022

In a September 10 Maine Voices column in the Portland Press Herald, Dan Bryant, MD, offers a prescription for “How to remove obstacles on our path to universal health care.” Bryant notes that “’stopgap’ changes . . . read more »

LTE: Profit has no place in health care

September 1, 2022

In a letter-to-the-editor published by the Portland Press Herald on August 27, Maine AllCare board chair Karen Foster responded to recent articles by reporter Joe Lawlor highlighting the “byzantine” system of medical billing and how . . . read more »