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GreenPartyVoter

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Thu Aug 9, 2012, 10:17 AM Aug 2012

"Conservative Maine group accidentally shows success of pre-LePage health care policy"

The Maine Heritage Policy Center, a conservative advocacy group, put out a paper today arguing that Maine shouldn’t expand Medicaid under Obamacare.

One of its core arguments is:

Maine’s uninsured rate is nearly the same as it was in 1999, while government-run health care enrollment has more than doubled in the same time period, from 10 percent of those insured to more than 23 percent in 2010.


And the MHPC presents this chart: http://pollways.bangordailynews.com/2012/08/08/national/conservative-maine-group-accidentally-argues-for-pre-lepage-health-care-policy/
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