The Health Monitor newsletter is a biweekly look by The Maine Monitor at the politics and people shaping health care in Maine. The newsletter is delivered by email every other Thursday and the story portion of each edition is archived below.
A 1950s medical model grows in Maine
With expected steep cuts to Medicaid, there’s a growing movement in Maine of primary care providers skipping insurance altogether.
Protections for abortion providers, new regulations for urgent care clinics signed into law
Here are a few notable health care bills that were passed and signed into law.
Maine has fifth-highest rate of emergency department visits nationwide
While the trend is not new, it comes as Maine hospitals are merging, reducing services and even closing.
Higher staffing requirements removed from assisted living bill
The initial proposed regulations would have doubled the number of direct care workers at residential care facilities overnight.
Widespread support for bill to pause private equity hospital ownership
A watchdog group found that 8.5 percent of private hospitals and 22.6 percent of for-profit hospitals in the U.S. are owned by private equity.
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