Report credits Dirigo for Maine's small leap to universal health ...
AUGUSTA, Maine — The provoke to enlarge coverage under the federal strength regard mend law won’t be as daunting in Maine as it is in much of the domain, according to a new communiqu. John Baldacci , who leaves service in January, signed the Dirigo Well-being program into law in 2003, extending insurance to thousands of Maine residents and ashamed businesses. The Maine Consultative Panel on Strength Systems Occurrence and the Steering Council on Fettle Rectification will judge a free hearing Tuesday on the story. Maine already has been twisted in innovative efforts to forearm affordable salubriousness coverage for its residents, making the form hastily to forthright coverage easier, according to the statement’s authors, who have been studying the meaning of the new federal law......
consumers to buy insurance, and insurers to protection people they otherwise wouldn't. The risk is that we wind up saddled with an expensive program that doesn't figure out the problem. Remember Dirigo Health, Maine's solution to the health-care conundrum?