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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Maine is once again heading the vanguard in health insurance development and policy. This time the Maine house put forth a provision eliminating caps on life time and yearly health insurance plans. This, in turn, would make it financially easier for residents who suddenly become sick or ill to pay for their treatment.
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Affordable health insurance is looking like harder and harder to achieve as obstacles to president Obama's health care reform are piling up daily. Among many hurdles are the increasing costs of current health insurance plans. Anthem Blue Cross, for example, has announced plans to increase premiums and in California and now in Maine.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
