Health care providers forced to make cuts amid MaineCare cap

Plain Talk: 'The people who ultimately get hurt in this are the patients'

MINOT — Our attitudes about health insurance shift, depending on the context we're in. When we're healthy and paying premiums, we want costs to be low. When we're sick or hurt or sitting alongside a family member suffering some malady, we want expansive coverage and not a lot of bureaucracy. Unfortunately, these things are in tension with one another; part of it is the process of prior authorization. What is that, specifically? "When a provider …

Rep. Pingree, Maine health care providers and patients say Medicaid cuts would be devastating

A bill that will likely include substantial cuts to the program has passed the House and will be considered by the Senate this year.

Health care providers forced to make cuts amid MaineCare cap

Health care providers are forced to make cuts amid MaineCare cap.

Letter to the Editor: MaineCare’s financial crisis is a disaster of Governor Mills’ own making

MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program, is in financial freefall, and there’s no one to blame but Governor Janet Mills. Under her administration…