MaineCare Made Me a Survivor and a Mother. Congress Must Defend It.

MaineCare made me a survivor and a mother. Congress must defend it.

It's hard for me to fathom any consideration of federal cuts to Medicaid.

Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.

GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Medicaid helped me survive cancer and become a mother. Congress must protect it.

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Megan Newsome is a parent and advocate living in Lisbon, with her son Brayden. I gave birth to my son with cancer growing in my chest. Just five days later, I began chemotherapy. Brayden arrived early, tiny, and fighting alongside his mother. Today, he’s a healthy toddle…

What Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement tells us about costs of 'Big Beautiful Bill' - The Current

Georgia spent $55M to build the verification system for its Medicaid work requirement policy, currently the only one in the nation. But in their draft bill, GOP leaders have allocated just $100M to help all 50 states stand up similar systems. The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, non-partisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.