Joan Howard of Augusta, ME "We know from baldi boy's Dirigo debacle and other examples of nationalized health care in Canada and England that this program does not and never will work."

If indeed we know these things, why is it that people in Canada and England (to say nothing of France, Spain--Costa Rica, for crying out loud!) have a longer life expectancy than Americans do? Why is it that they have lower infant mortality? Why is it, in short, that the United States is thirty-seventh (37th!) in the world in health care outcomes generally?report abuse

Joe Atkinson of Dresden, ME We should appreciate the efforts of those who complain with sincerity, empathy, compassion and emotion but who offer no solutions. There is a place in our society for “Red Flag” wavers.
Most of us were already aware of the health care crisis in Maine. The solution has evaded us because there remains a division too deep to bring to resolution.
Maine does not have a Health Insurance system. We have so encumbered our Health Insurance programs/regulations with “social imperatives” that it has become a subsidized health care system- with the subsidies coming from those who pay for Health Insurance. The great divide is between those who believe that Big Government should confiscate the wealth of those of have or earn money to provide for those who our bureaucrats believe “need the most” - those who believe in the single-payer system and those who believe in a free market Health Insurance program augmented with welfare to subsidize the needs of those who can not afford health insurance premiums or emergency room visits or routine checkups or any and all other preventative health care activities.
We can all agree with this organization on the point - there is a health care crisis in Maine. We can also disagree on the direction for resolution; and we can stay in this mode for decades.report abuse

Wendy Burgess of South Gardiner, ME Health care has been and always will be a problem. It is too expensive!!!

Essentially people want you to pay big money for their policies but when you need them they are not there. They won't pay for anything. Then it falls on government to help people who cannot afford it. I know everyone deserves adequate health care. I personally would love to have it but cannot get it.

They need to go after insurance companies, hospitals and doctors. They are where the expenses are coming from.report abuse

Zachaeus of Winthrop, ME MSEA is nothing more than A PAC. They showed their true colors when they extracted money out of all state employees under the pretext that they had to help pay for their contract negotiations. Of course one cannot vote on that contract unless one becomes a full member and pay for their political activity.report abuse