Maine AllCare News

Statewide meeting July 16

June 19, 2023

Join us for the next statewide Maine AllCare meeting (held virtually via Zoom) on Sunday, July 16! We’ll hear updates from the MAC board on our initiatives, recent legislative activity, upcoming events, and more. Is . . . read more »

Save the Date! Common Ground Fair, Sept. 22-24

June 19, 2023

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be back at the Common Ground Country Fair this year, on September 22–24! We’ll have a table in the Social and Political Action tent all three days, and will . . . 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 »

Updates on LD 590 and other Maine bills

May 11, 2023

On May 9, 2023, the Joint Standing Committee for Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services of the Maine Legislature held a public hearing on a slate of bills related to health care reform. We have . . . read more »

Report on April 23 statewide meeting

May 11, 2023

It was great to see people’s faces, hear their questions and comments, and feel the energy they brought to our first statewide, virtual meeting on April 23. If you weren’t able to attend, below you’ll . . . 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 »

April 2023 Newsletter: How our system hurts medical workers and how universal health care could help

April 21, 2023

Between a rock and a hard place  Burnout, workforce distress, moral injury: These terms have different shades of meaning but all point to a growing crisis in medical workers, many of whom are experiencing exhaustion, . . . read more »

Join us April 23! Maine AllCare statewide virtual meeting

April 13, 2023

To better stay in touch and work together, we’re experimenting with a statewide, virtual meeting for Maine AllCare supporters and people who want to learn more and get involved. There will be updates on MAC . . . 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 »