Maine Letters and Opinion

Mainers need their own health care system

October 29, 2021

Poor health care access sickens too many Maine people. Even with insurance, high deductibles limit access. Most Maine residents know a friend or family member who suffered unnecessarily or died. This is scary for everyone. . . . read more »

Maine needs universal health care.

October 16, 2021

This past year and a half coping with the COVID-19 pandemic has clearly brought us face to face with the inadequacies of our health care system. It is a known fact that the U.S. does . . . read more »

Mainers deserve equitable health care system

October 2, 2021

In August, the Commonwealth Fund issued a report comparing health care in the U.S. to 10 other high-income countries. The U.S. compared dismally, ranking last in health care affordability and health equity. The U.S. health . . . read more »

Prevent Medicare privatization

October 1, 2021

Would people be shocked to find that an attempt to privatize Medicare in order to funnel profits to Wall Street investors is underway? Direct contracting entities were created in 2020 during the Trump administration and continued under . . . read more »

Maine should move toward universal care

June 29, 2021

“The pandemic has taught us the importance of a government willing to take responsibility for the health of the governed…..As a primary care physician, I implore Gov. Mills to join the states seeking to establish . . . read more »

Trenton takes a stand

May 28, 2021

The pandemic has laid bare the harsh realities of our current for-profit health care system. Besides my own personal and professional story battling this impersonal, complex and expensive system, I was further compelled to work . . . read more »

Students support Maine AllCare

May 5, 2021

  Students support Maine AllCare Eight social work students have written a letter of support for Maine AllCare.   Their conclusion: “Maine can have universal health care and Mainers can get the health care that they . . . read more »

Time for action on universal health coverage in Maine

January 28, 2021

A nonprofit group started by Maine residents is planning to circulate petitions to put a resolve before voters in November 2022. Maine Health Care Action, a nonprofit 501(c)4 organization started by Maine residents, plans to . . . read more »

Both economics, humanity support universal health care

December 27, 2020

“Why should pleading be necessary? … How can we tolerate being so far behind?” Two letters to the editor on the subject of universal healthcare appeared in the Portland Press Herald in mid-December.  Dr. Thomas . . . read more »

COVID-19 proves the need for universal health coverage

September 11, 2020

No other developed country puts its people through what Americans face when they need health care. BY JEFFREY GRAHAM – SPECIAL TO THE PRESS HERALD As a charter member of the Bangor chapter of Maine . . . read more »