Ensuring access to high-quality, affordable health care coverage for Mainers has been a priority of mine since being elected to the state Senate in 2010. I spent significant time examining our current health care system as chair of the Insurance and Financial Services Committee. I’m troubled by calls to completely replace it with an unproven state government-run system that is likely to reduce access and hurt Maine families and small businesses.
During my time in the state legislature, I sponsored bills to ensure sustainable health care access to our neighbors in the rural Jackman region. A government-run option will undo
According to a recent University of Alabama at Birmingham study, the pandemic increased the prevalence of people with depression or anxiety symptoms in America substantially — from about 11 percent of people in 2019 to close to 40 percent in 2021.