Maine Letters and Opinion

Time to Act on Health Care

January 25, 2026

Published in the Midcoast Villager on January 19, 2026 by Bob Kohl, lives in Liberty Thousands of Mainers struggle to afford health care coverage. With Congress unwilling to renew Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) subsidies or provide . . . read more »

Support the Medicare for All Act

December 14, 2025

Published in the Maine Sunday Telegram: Thank you to Drs. Jeffrey Barkin and Daniel Bryant for their excellent opinion pieces about our health care system in recent Sunday editions. Support for Medicare for All is . . . read more »

Single-payer health care strongly supported by Maine’s medical community | Opinion

December 2, 2025

Published in the Portland Press Herald on November 30, 2025 by Daniel C. Bryant, MD, lives in Cape Elizabeth. In his Nov. 23 Maine Sunday Telegram op-ed (“When health insurance breaks down, we break too“), Dr. Jeffrey . . . read more »

Opinion: Maine blew an opportunity to repair its health care system

June 28, 2025

Doctor Daniel Bryant, a member of Maine AllCare’s Policy Committee, reviews the Maine Legislature’s failure to make any progress on healthcare reform during the recent session. In his Op-ed in the Portland Press Herald, he . . . read more »

Physicians speak out in opposition to the RFK Jr nomination

January 21, 2025

“The decision to nominate RFK Jr. as the secretary of health and human services is not just irresponsible, it is dangerous.” Doctors Jane Pringle and Brendan Prast, writing in the Portland Press Herald: “…vaccinations are . . . read more »

It’s time we treated health care as a public good

January 20, 2025

Maine AllCare board member Michael Bacon’s powerful letters to the editor were published in the Bangor Daily News in December 2024, and in the Washington Post in January 2025. In his letter to the Bangor . . . read more »

Another call for single-payer health insurance

January 2, 2025

Robyn Goshorn, MD, FACP writes in the Portland Press Herald on December 22, 2024: “…Presidents from both parties, going back to Theodore Roosevelt, have proposed national health insurance as the optimal financial structure for our . . . read more »

A warning to the insatiable insurance industry

January 2, 2025

Prompted by the death of the United Healthcare CEO and by the close of the open enrollment period for Medicare supplemental and Advantage plans, Kennebunk resident Jean Thompson writes in the Portland Press Herald: “…Someone . . . read more »

Building bridges with universal public health care

December 27, 2024

Kenneth James, of Cushing, gets right to his point in this succinct letter to the editor: “I’ve long felt that universal public health care would help heal divisions in the U.S. by affirming a common . . . read more »

Our health care system includes a lot of hidden costs

November 14, 2024

Our health care system includes a lot of hidden costs   “One of my most unpleasant experiences as a physician was our small practice’s monthly review of patients’ unpaid bills…their difficulty paying their medical bills . . . read more »