[9YearLurker]

Good analogy.

Found this, which I take it provides our answer. It looks like ME passed an even more draconian universal health care bill to provide access and ‘keep costs down’ than MA did:

http://www.newrules.org/equity/rules/singlepayer-and-universal-health-care/universal-health-care-initiative-maine

[maica]

It looks like ME passed an even more draconian universal health care bill to provide access and ‘keep costs down’ than MA did:

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Recently a caller to a local show in MD talked about how much lower his premiums were here than when he lived in ME, even though he had to pay his own here.

I guess ME just got too compasssssionate with telling insurance companies what they had to do. I also have a feeling that Maine is a chronically distressed area economically, in the way the Canadian Maritimes are these days. Perhaps there is a huge proportion of down-easters who are not paying anything for their health care, but are on govt supported plan?