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Category: Health and Human Services

WABI TV | Governor Proposes Big Changes To Medicaid Amidst Budget Shortfall

Posted: December 06, 2011

Source: WABI TV, Rob Poindexter, December 6th 2011 Click here to view video. Augusta - People enrolled in Maine's Medicaid program could see...

BDN | State budget task force agrees on $25 million in cuts

Posted: November 29, 2011

By Eric Russell, Bangor Daily News, Nov. 28, 2011 AUGUSTA, Maine — A state task force created to identify $25 million in budget cuts to address a...

MAINE LEADER PARTICIPATES IN HEALTH CARE AND TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT

Posted: November 03, 2011

BALTIMORE, MD—Democratic Leader, Senator Barry Hobbins (D-Saco) was one of more than eighty legislators, corporate leaders, and academics from...

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...