Janet Mills on Health Care

	Janet Mills on Health Care

I want to expand behavioral health services across Maine

Even with the progress we have made to expand behavioral health services, access to services can still be a serious struggle. I want to expand behavioral health services across Maine, particularly for those in crisis. I propose that we establish a network of crisis receiving centers across Maine so that any person suffering a mental health crisis can get prompt and appropriate care, instead of being alone or languishing in an emergency department or a jail, as is too often the case. Source: 2024 State of the State Address to the Maine legislature , Jan 30, 2024

Independent of Medicaid we're also providing dental care

Over 100,000 more Maine people receive treatment for accidents and illnesses, prescriptions and procedures, and--now--dental care just through the Medicaid expansion. And now, independent of Medicaid, we're also providing dental care to hundreds of Maine veterans who could not otherwise afford to see a dentist through a partnership between my administration and Northeast Delta Dental, supported by members of Maine Masonic Lodges and others. Source: 2023 State of the State Address to the Maine legislature , Feb 14, 2023

Medicaid expansion helps everyone

Expanding MaineCare will help rural hospitals--which are some of the largest employers in their communities, often the only source of care, and often on the edge of financial collapse--because expansion will reduce the amount of uncompensated care they are asked to provide. We expect that this will reduce the cost of health insurance to small businesses, self-employed individuals and employees--whose insurance rates are essentially making up the difference for hospitals' uncompensated care. Source: 2019 State of the State address to the Maine legislature , Feb 11, 2019

Expanding MaineCare helps needy & helps hospitals

Expanded MaineCare will help up to 70,000 people who now lack affordable health insurance, so that they will never again have to face the choice between medical care and bankruptcy. Expanding MaineCare will also help our rural hospitals-- which are some of the largest employers in their communities, often the only source of care, and often on the edge of financial collapse--because expansion will reduce the amount of uncompensated care they are asked to provide. Source: 2019 State of the State address to the Maine legislature , Feb 11, 2019

Her office took on drug manufacturer Mylan on price gouging

Last year, generic drug manufacturer Mylan jumped the price of a 2-pack of EpiPens, from about $100 in 2007 to over $600 last year. Last winter, the Maine Atty General's Office and Atty general's in 19 other states sued Mylan and 6 other generic drug companies for conspiring to artificially inflate prices and reduce competition for an antibiotic drug and an oral diabetes drug. Just because a drug is cheap for them to make does not mean any savings will be passed on to consumers. Source: Mills OpEd in Press Herald on 2018 Maine Gubernatorial race , Jun 28, 2017

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