Many low-income Maine residents were hoping for healthcare coverage under the Medicaid expansion. The reelection of Republican governor Paul LePage means they almost certainly won’t get it.
We covered the pending Medicaid crisis in Maine a few months ago. Now that Paul LePage has been reelected, this comic by Roxanne Palmer is a good primer on why access to basic health care in Maine is about to become a big problem.
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