The administration’s recently enacted cuts to Medicaid will cause 40,000 Mainers to lose health care by 2026, and another 31,000 to become uninsured by 2027. In addition, the Medicaid dollars that are being withheld today will explode future costs and diminish workforce capacity due to unnecessarily poor health outcomes that could, and should, have been […]

Should Sen. Susan Collins consider her career in jeopardy having voted against the big beautiful (disaster) bill? She is only partly in the camp of senators who have abdicated their roles and displayed obscene fealty while ignoring their constituents. They simply are not doing their jobs. The slashed funds had already been approved by a […]

I am most concerned about how the expected Medicaid cuts, recently enacted by Congress, will affect Maine’s most vulnerable adults. For many years, I served as an attorney for the Adult Protective Services Division of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services in Cumberland and York counties. I helped the department prosecute cases for […]

Congressman Jared Golden must change his position on the treatment of Gaza. There is growing evidence that the Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli government are actively committing genocide in Gaza. Sadly, our U.S. government is providing support to Israel as it murders Palestinians through starvation and through active military violence. And where is Congressman Golden […]