EDITORIAL: Is LePage really such a stalwart opponent of Medicaid expansion?
We have our doubts after the governor's Monday appearance on
Apparently, after signing a state budget early in his tenure as governor to cut back on
The governor betrayed his lack of understanding after "Maine Calling" host
"The state of
If that's actually LePage's understanding, he has apparently forgotten everything that has happened with
-- When LePage took office, the state's
-- In 2012, LePage signed a supplemental budget bill that proposed to scale back the coverage threshold for parents to 100 percent of the poverty level and ultimately end coverage for childless adults.
-- The problem was, the cuts to parent coverage ran afoul of federal law, specifically a provision of the Affordable Care Act that required that states generally keep their
-- At the start of 2014, the LePage administration was able to lower the coverage threshold to 100 percent of the poverty level for parents. Low-income childless adults also lost their coverage at that time, as
Today,
When a listener called in Monday and challenged LePage on his
"When I leave here, I'm going to go call the commissioner to see," LePage said. "There's something missing here, because that's the whole purpose.
Indeed, that's how the Affordable Care Act was designed -- to cover those with the lowest incomes with
The exchange got us thinking: Is LePage really such a stalwart opponent of
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