State of Maine secondary Archives: on Health Care


Angus King: Fund prevention programs “Campaign for a Healthy Maine”

A substantial portion of the health care bill in Maine is avoidable, because it relates to health care costs we bring on ourselves - through choices about the way we live. Four chronic diseases - cardiovascular and lung disease, cancer, and diabetes- all related to smoking, lack of exercise and poor diet- kill 75% of Maine people.
    I propose that we use the money received from the national tobacco settlement primarily for a Campaign for a Healthy Maine, an initiative which empowers state agencies, communities, schools, and health care providers to effectively address this chronic disease epidemic [focusing on]:
  1. Prevention and cessation of smoking in Maine, especially among our young people.
  2. Promoting prevention measures within our schools and our communities.
  3. Alcohol and substance abuse prevention.
  4. A new psychiatric treatment center and investments in community mental health that will improve the delivery of these critical services.
Source: 2001 State of the State address to the Me. legislature Jan 24, 2001

Zak Ringelstein: ObamaCare helped; but supports Medicare single payer

There is no excuse for why the richest country in the world has forced millions of people to live in fear about their next medical bill. The ACA has increased the percentage of Americans covered by insurance. However, it still doesn't work well for all Americans. We believe that health care is a right. Therefore we believe Medicare, a single-payer system that has proven itself over the course of many decades, should be implemented universally.
Source: 2018 Me. Senate campaign website, RingelsteinForMaine.com Jun 26, 2018

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