The Maine Wire: “Schaeffer: A Medicaid Bubble – and How to Get There” plus 3 more

• Schaeffer: A Medicaid Bubble – and How to Get There
• Frary: Maine’s Medicaid Expansion Follies
• Welfare Jackpot: Gambling with TANF cash
• LePage talks welfare abuse, GOP presidential candidates with Laura Ingraham

Schaeffer: A Medicaid Bubble – and How to Get There Posted: 13 Jan 2014 01:05 PM PST Maine Wire readers should be well aware that the most controversial policy issue at the State level this year is sure to be Medicaid expansion (or MaineCare, as it’s called here in Maine.)  In fact, the legislature has scheduled a public hearing for LD 1578 on Wednesday of this week (violating their own rules, we […]

Frary: Maine’s Medicaid Expansion Follies Posted: 13 Jan 2014 11:18 AM PST Mark Giangreco, my new friend at the Democratic Governor’s Association (DGA), just sent an e-mail urging me “to join Mike Michaud and the DGA to tell Governor LePage to support Medicaid expansion TODAY!” Mark tells me our governor has it in his power to “give health care to thousands of people in need.” The DGA’s […]

Welfare Jackpot: Gambling with TANF cash Posted: 13 Jan 2014 10:59 AM PST Are Maine’s cash welfare recipients gambling with taxpayer money? According to The Maine Wire’s investigation into the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, the answer is, yes! The Maine Wire obtained three years’ worth of TANF transaction data from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) pursuant to a Freedom of Access Act […]

LePage talks welfare abuse, GOP presidential candidates with Laura Ingraham Posted: 13 Jan 2014 09:05 AM PST Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage joined talk radio host Laura Ingraham to talk about welfare abuse in the Pine Tree State and the 50-year-old war on poverty. “As Ronald Reagan said, the liberals waged war on poverty, and poverty won,” said LePage, who has made welfare reform a top priority in the current legislative session. […]