health insurance

Published
March 14, 2022

State insurance bureau recovered $1.3 million for Mainers in 2021

The Maine Bureau of Insurance said Monday that it conducted 435 investigations on behalf of insurance customers.
Published
February 16, 2022

State to merge health insurance markets in bid to help small businesses

State insurance regulators said the merger of the individual and small group markets will promote price stability and lower premiums.
Published
January 18, 2022

66,000 Mainers enroll in first year of state health insurance marketplace

More than 80% of them are receiving financial assistance.
Published
January 17, 2022

Maine Voices: University abandons students’ health care needs

Financially strapped students can no longer get coverage through the University of Maine, leaving many in the lurch.
Published
December 9, 2021

Nearly 60,000 sign up for health insurance via new Maine marketplace

The signups represents an increase from last year, when Maine was still using the federal HealthCare.gov platform

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Published
November 13, 2021

Commentary: Rare form of slow-moving cancer can hide behind common symptoms

Symptom awareness of carcinoid cancer, my husband’s killer, is the key to earlier diagnoses, which can in turn save lives.
Published
August 30, 2021

Most Maine health plans no longer waive patient costs for COVID-19 treatment

Only one major insurer, Community Health Options, is bucking the national trend and waiving cost-sharing for COVID-19 patients through the end of the year.
Published
June 21, 2021

Pandemic, rule change helped swell Medicaid enrollment to a new high

The spike means the size of the public insurance program for low-income Americans now significantly eclipses the nearly 63 million older Americans covered last year through Medicare.
Published
June 20, 2021

Controversial new Alzheimer’s drug gives patients in Maine hope

The treatment developed by Biogen could slow its progression, but health professionals and researchers are divided on whether the FDA was right to approve it.
Published
June 17, 2021

U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to Obamacare

The justices left the entire law intact in a ruling handed down Thursday morning.