Scott Schiff-Slater, a family physician in central Maine, knows how the system works and did all the “right” things, and was still billed hundreds of dollars more than expected for a medical procedure. “…although I . . . read more »
Published by the Ellsworth American, Nov. 16: Absent from most reporting of Nov. 7 election results, which focused on the eight state referendums, was the outcome of Penobscot’s town referendum on health care. The resolution . . . read more »
David Jolly, a Maine AllCare board member and resident of the small town of Penobscot in Hancock County, is leading a pilot project to put the question of universal health care directly to voters at . . . read more »
The health policy statement – in favor of universal care – shows that the group recognizes the need to put patients’ and caregivers’ interests first. The Maine Medical Association is to be commended for its . . . read more »
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 »
In an April 25 Maine Voices column in the Portland Press Herald, retired physician David Scotton suggests a thought experiment to better understand how single-payer health care financing would work. “Our society is now being . . . read more »
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 »
In an April 9, 2023, opinion piece in the Portland Press Herald, Deborah Patten, M.D. of Bath lays out how our profit-driven system “sabotages” medical practice. “At some point, most of us who entered medicine . . . read more »
The U.S. public—and increasingly the business community—are becoming acutely aware of the rising costs and inadequacies of our current for-profit system, particularly as the current epidemic unfolds. There is no other choice but Medicare for . . . read more »
This essay by Dr. Bill Clark appeared in the November 24, 2017 issue of The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine: http://www.timesrecord.com/news/2017-11-24/Opinion/Mainers_Deserve_a_Liferaft.html Mainers Deserve a Liferaft BY BILL CLARK Maine AllCare is a non-partisan, not-for-profit group that . . . read more »
