[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]

"...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?