Maine’s Republican senator and Bill Nelson offer a reinsurance plan that would help keep premiums in check, as the Senate yet again considers a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Joe Lawlor
Staff Writer
Joe Lawlor writes about health and human services for the Press Herald. A 24-year newspaper veteran, Lawlor has worked in Ohio, Michigan and Virginia before relocating to Maine in 2013 to join the Press Herald. He is still considered “from away” but since then, he has learned what a “dooryard” is, eaten “whoopie pies” drank Moxie and boiled some “lobstahs.” The stories he enjoys most are when he learns something and meeting inspiring people.
He lives in South Portland - aka “SoPo” - with his wife, Melanie, and two school-age children.
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Sen. Collins alarmed by Medicaid cuts, limits on pre-existing conditions in latest ACA repeal proposal
The Graham-Cassidy proposal would result in 32 million fewer Americans having health insurance, according to one study.
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As maternity services vanish in rural Maine, mothers expect to travel long distances to hospitals
Some in remote areas face hourslong drives on dark roads before they can arrive at one of a dwindling number of sites that still offer obstetrics units.
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Holocaust survivor, leader of Portland Jewish community, dies at 102
Kurt Messerschmidt hummed through the horror of a concentration camp, married another prisoner and went on to teach music at Temple Beth El.
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Fire causes significant damage to home in Poland
A fire official says the blaze on Hardscrabble Road was likely started by a heating lamp in the detached garage.
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Maine jabs back at stubbornly high rate of whooping cough cases
Seventh-graders must have booster shots starting this year as Maine’s high incidence of ‘nasty’ pertussis persists.
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Updates: Former Mainers worried, scared as Irma hits Florida but ‘we have been through this a bunch of times’
Meanwhile, a Brunswick man helps run a Red Cross evacuation center east of Fort Myers.
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‘Coming directly at us’: Mainers in Florida hunker down or flee as massive Irma approaches
As a Category 4 hurricane, Irma has already devastated the Caribbean, killing at least 22, and a track for Florida looks increasingly likely.
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Sen. Collins says ‘dreamers’ should have a chance to stay in U.S.
Maine’s senior senator says she believes Congress will reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects people brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
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Trump administration’s cuts to ACA outreach will damage enrollment efforts in Maine, experts say
Nonprofits in Maine are braced for a 40 percent cut in federal grants that help states get people signed up for insurance.