Health Care New Report Highlights How the Affordable Care Act Helps Close Affordability Gap This week the Kaiser Family Foundation released “An Early Look at Premiums and Insurer Participation in Health Insurance Marketplaces, 2014.” The report provides a summary of health […] Garrett Martin Posted September 25, 2013 Tags Affordable Care Act, Health Care, Medicaid
Jobs and Income Bad News: Poverty Up, Income Down The latest data from the Census Bureau show no improvement in two key indicators of economic well-being for Mainers. The poverty rate continues to rise and is […] Joel Johnson Posted September 20, 2013 Tags Incomes, Poverty
Health Care Fact Sheet: Federal Health Care Funds Will Boost Local Economies MECEP estimates that turning down more than $1 billion in federal Affordable Care Act funds to cover the full cost of increasing health coverage to 69,500 Mainers will […] MECEP Posted September 18, 2013 Tags Affordable Care Act, Federal, Health Care
Maine’s Economy More Mainers are Hungry More Mainers are going hungry today than 10 years ago. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), from 2011 to 2012, 15% of Mainers struggled to […] Jody Harris Posted September 5, 2013 Tags Children, Poverty