Maine
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Maine’s People Allaince
Website: http://www.mainepeoplesalliance.org/
State Organizations Endorsing HR676
- Woolwich, Maine Democratic Committee
Local Unions Endorsing HR676
- Local 2327, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Augusta, ME
- Greater Bangor Area Central Labor Council, Bangor, ME
- Southern Maine Labor Council, AFL-CIO
- Local 327, LIUNA
- Central Maine Labor Council
- Maine Building & Construction Trades Council
- Western Maine Central Labor Council AFL-CIO, Lewiston, ME
September 24, 2008
Thinking big on health
Editorial | Bangor Daily News
A doctors’ organization, Physicians for a National Health Program, has been pressing for single-payer national health insurance. It points out that the United States now spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, while Americans lag in life expectancy and infant mortality rates and 47 million lack health coverage. It argues that 31 percent of the nation’s health care cost now goes into the private insurance bureaucracy and paper-work and that a single-payer plan would save more than $350 billion a year.
September 10, 2008
Expand Medicare
Dr. William Clark | Times Record | Letter to the Editor
Medicare for everyone costs less because administration at every level is cheaper. It’s cheaper because insurers don’t profit from your illness and because we would not pay chief executive officers seven-figure incomes. And we could finally get a handle on rising costs by planning and budgeting.
August 12, 2008
Only national insurance can fix broken system
Dr. John Benziger | Letter to the Editor | Kennebec (Maine) Journal
Some claim that uninsured Americans can get the care they need in emergency rooms. But ERs may provide too little, too late for the millions of uninsured with chronic conditions. They need regular medical monitoring and medications to control their illnesses and a whole array of services they cannot afford. Our profit-driven health care system leaves tens of millions vulnerable. Only single-payer national health insurance can fix this broken system and save thousands of lives each year.
November 30, 2007
‘Sicko’ viewers
By Bonnie Washuk | Lewiston Sun Journal
With insurance companies, hospitals, doctors and drug makers focused on profits instead of patients, health care has become unaffordable, not just to those without insurance but to those with it, said people who crowded into a labor union hall Tuesday night.
November 22, 2007
Former Brooklin, Maine Couple Applaud Canadian System
by Tom Walsh | The Ellsworth American
Now living near Digby, Paul and Gretchen Volenik are enjoying all that rural Nova Scotia has to offer, including tax-funded medical care.