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Category: Health and Human Services

LePage administration purges four more appointees in DHHS

Posted: August 25, 2011

READ MORE AT THE SUN JOURNAL. By Steve Mistler, staff writer AUGUSTA — Officials at the Department of Health Human Services confirmed Thursday...

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD: Our View: LePage's MaineCare cuts go too deep

Posted: May 13, 2011

Balancing a budget on the backs of people in need is not responsible government. Gov. LePage ran on a promise to reform welfare and end a culture of...

LePage assails previous DHHS administration

Posted: March 19, 2011

... Sen. Margaret Craven, D-Lewiston and a ranking Democrat on the committee, said the LePage administration may feel surprised because it fired...

Immigrant advocates dispute anecdotes driving LePage's safety-net proposal

Posted: March 18, 2011

... Sen. Margaret Craven, D-Lewiston, the ranking Democrat on the Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee, agreed. "The time to help...

Alfond Convenes Meeting to Discuss Proposed Closure of Maine's Residential Substance Abuse Programs

Posted: March 15, 2011

Senator Justin Alfond is convening a meeting with legislators, Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner and state-wide health officials...

Sen. Craven: Welfare policy "put forth by MHPC will further disenfranchise those living in poverty"

Posted: March 08, 2011

As the lead Democrat on the Health and Human Services committee, I am, of course, interested in learning more from our newly confirmed commissioner...

Numbers game

Posted: March 07, 2011

Sen. Margaret Craven, D-Lewiston, who serves on the Health and Human Services Committee, said she will keep an open mind, but she is astounded that...

Gov. Paul LePage's nominees for farm agency, DHHS confirmed

Posted: February 09, 2011

... Sen. Bill Diamond, D-Windham, a former co-chair of the Appropriations Committee, congratulated Bernhardt for his commitment to finding...

Legislative Committee Endorses Mayhew to Head Maine DHHS

Posted: February 02, 2011

... Democratic Sen. Margaret Craven says she had heard a lot of discussion about Mayhew's plans for reforming the upper echelons of DHHS from the...