Maine’s health care crisis intensifies with recent Medicaid restrictions

Maine’s health care crisis intensifies with recent Medicaid restrictions

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 Vanessa Shields-Haas is a nurse practitioner at Maine Family Planning. I am a nurse practitioner in Maine. We have a catastrophic health care crisis unfolding in our state. Nearly half of Maine’s hospitals are at risk of closing and others are merging and reducing servic…