medicaid

KENNEBUNK, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage is ratcheting up the rhetoric on Medicaid expansion, describing it as "sinful."

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage says scheduled reductions to the national food stamps program prove the state can't rely on the federal government to pay for a Medicaid expansion.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine hospitals have received electronic payments from the state for nearly $500 million to pay back decades of debt for unpaid Medicaid services. Republican Gov. Paul LePage visited the Inland Hospital in Waterville and Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston on Wednesday and ceremoniously handed hospital officials their checks...

Governor LePage requested thousands of people to be dropped from Medicaid but the Obama administration rejected that request.