Maine: Gov.Baldacci to announce universal health care plan Monday

boston.com ^ | 5-4-03

[SheLion]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Gov. John Baldacci, who pledged during last fall's election campaign to establish a health care system in which no Mainer is left without coverage, plans to announce a health care reform plan Monday.

The governor's announcement at the University of Maine at Augusta follows months of work with his Office of Health Policy and Finance, which he created in one of his first official acts after taking the oath of office in January.

[SheLion]

Anyone have any thoughts on this????

[SheLion]

Thoughts?

Gov. Baldacci

[Grampa Dave]

Now I know why a lot of Gays are moving from California to retire or work in Maine.

[GiveEmDubya]

Maybe they should call themselves Little Canada.

[SheLion]

Now I know why a lot of Gays are moving from California to retire or work in Maine.

That's what I thought

[Bernard]

If individual states like Maine start providing their own universal health-care, there won't be a need for such a program at the national level. Then everybody can pay their own way, based on how much the allow their state government to spend.

When does Maine stop accepting federal money through Medicaid and Medicare and replace it with Maine money?

[GiveEmDubya]

My father changed his retirement plans; originally he was wanting to go to Maine but he wants NH now because it is markedly more conservative.

[SheLion]

Maybe they should call themselves Little Canada.

I think Hitler's regime is alive and well in Maine..............

[GiveEmDubya]

I think Castro's regime is alive and well in Maine.

[SheLion]

When does Maine stop accepting federal money through Medicaid and Medicare and replace it with Maine money?

I don't think Maine HAS any money! We are supposed to be the poorest state in the Union............what money??? We just lost 3,000 more workers!

[klute]

I'm sure these people will appreciate it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A21728-2002Oct13?language=printer

[Bernard]

That's going to make funding a real issue. Well, I'm sure the new governor will find a revenue source. Maybe he can put toll booths on the throughways, along with donation boxes for people who want to "add a little extra"...

[Timesink]

Maine Companies to announce move to New Hampshire Monday

[putupon]

Maybe they should call themselves Little Canada.

Maybe we should just give Maine to Canada, no great loss. Getting rid of the welfare State of West Virginia was the best thing that happened for the taxpayers of Virginia.

[lelio]

Rep. Janet McLaughlin, D-Cape Elizabeth, who sponsored the newer bill, said Maine's law will be a model for other states.
That is, she hopes it will be a model for other states so that the companies wanting to leave Maine due to higher taxes will have no place left to go.
13% uninsured is pretty high. Odd that the government doesn't want to look into the reasons why it is that way. Perhaps its mostly immigrants from Somali making up this amount. Perhaps its people recently unemployed.
The solution to this isn't to tax everyone to death and have some socialist medicine system in place, the solution is to bring in new industries.

[dixiechick2000]

Is this, as the title states, a true universal health care plan and will the people of Maine be allowed to vote on it?

[dixiechick2000]

"...Maine's law will be a model for other states."

Ha! That's what they said in Oregon!

Could it be that the same people who were behind Oregon's proposed universal health care plan (overwhelming defeated by the voters), behind this one?

[Lancey Howard]

Cool stuff!
Let Maine become a national parasite magnet.
Better for the rest of us in the civilized states.

[Grampa Dave]

We know of a lesbian twosome that is moving to Maine. A gay doc has just moved there to work a couple of years to retire, and he isn't the only of that lifestyle.

After reading this, I'm sure that they/he aren't the first.

Warning to Maine conservatives, when the dark side perverts move to from California to another state, they intend to take it over politically. This is what they did in Oregon from the late 1980's and throughout the 1990's.