Medicaid Health Insurance Program: Medicaid Expansion

Medicaid expansion: The measure also would have established a managed care system for all 320,000 beneficiaries, an effort to control costs in the $2.5 billion program, which is Maines version of the Medicaid health insurance program and Maines Democratic state House Speaker, Mark Eves, noted the circumstances this week surrounding Medicaid expansion. We have a bipartisan plan for life-saving health care for tens of thousands of Mainers, he said. It creates jobs, it save lives, it saves money. All of this happens to be true. Every state north of Virginia has either embraced Medicaid expansion or is working towards doing so except Maine, where Gov. Paul LePage R refuses to cooperate. More than 60,000 low-income Mainers would benefit from the policy, on top of the economic and fiscal benefits, but the Republican governor nevertheless vetoed Medicaid expansion yesterday. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.