Maine Health Insurance:
Maine health insurance. Review of plans and policies of health insurance coverage providers in Maine. Family, Individual and small business health insurance plans in Maine. News about legislature making health insurance affordable in Maine.
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Sep 5th, 2009
At a health care roundtable that was co-sponsored by AARP, the guest speaker, federal Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius attempted to ease the fears of seniors from the state of Maine about health care and health insurance coverage. Maine seniors are concerned about Medicare and getting their benefits cut with the new health care reform legislation.
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Dec 10th, 2008
While malpractice insurance rates are low in Maine and physician services are in demand amid new construction projects, Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements are also low, complicating area physician recruitment efforts.
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Oct 31st, 2008
Many Maine companies offer between two and eight choices of health insurance plans. The options will usually have different costs to the employee both in the amount deducted from their paycheck and the total cost of the coverage for deductibles, co-pays and co-insurance over the course of the year.
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Aug 27th, 2008
The funding package also includes a 1.8 percent tax on all paid health insurance claims, which is similar to the current SOP except.
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Aug 25th, 2008
New taxes to support Dirigo Care, the Maine state government's attempt at providing "universal" health care, have so angered Maine residents that a coalition dedicated to repealing the tax increases was able to collect nearly twice as many signatures as required to put a repeal referendum on the state's ballot this November.
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Apr 11th, 2008
Legislation being considered by Maine lawmakers would place a 1.8% fixed annual fee on claims paid by health insurers to help fund the state's DirigoChoice health insurance program.
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Dec 6th, 2007
Report examines progress that Maine's Dirigo Health Reform Act, adopted in 2003, has made in making affordable health care coverage available to all state residents by 2009.