Vance of Portland, ME Any time we enact a new program we need to make sure it is really worth it's expense. In 2003 when Dirigo was enacted, it promised to cover the 128,000 uninsured people. After just two years there was supposed to be 40,000 on the program that were uninsured. After 5 years there are barely 4,000 Maine residents who were previously uninsured on the program. By every single measure Dirigo is a complete failure. Just because we can subsidize some people does not make it a viable program. The rest of the insured residents of the state shouldn't need to be responsible for the people who aren't but can afford insurance.

Maine has for too many years let people who don't understand how insurance and medicine run the state. These czars are too infatuated with keeping a socialistic program going rather then actually reducing costs for healthcare and insurance in this state.

In the next year we will learn about the Dirigo killer and how everyone can have reduced insurance. Next year the people will have a opportunity to lower costs here in Maine. This year's vote was a start but next year will be better. Being able to purchase insurance across state lines will allow us to reduce costs for everyone and not just the few that are currently on Dirigo.report abuse

Felix LeChat of Brunswick, ME Trish Riley will be Secretary of Health & Human Services for OBAMA. She will then expand Dirigo to cover everyone in the entire USA! Now that is real CHANGE.report abuse

ProudAmericn of Gardiner, ME Okay let me get this straight. Obama will provide health insurance for us all??? We have seen how well government provides health insurance first hand with the Dirigo Health program fiasco. Do you really think it will get any better with a national plan? The only thing I can see from a national plan is additional waste and even higher taxes.

Let's try a different method for providing health care. Offer tax breaks to companies that offer DECENT health insurance to their employees. What you don't work?!?! THEN GET OFF YOUR F*T A** AND BECOME A CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF SOCIETY INSTEAD OF A BURDEN.

Yes I understand that some folks are handicapped to the extent that they can't work, for those we are obligated to assist them BUT there are far more just abusing the system and getting a free ride on the working classes backs.report abuse

No2Socialism of Gardiner, ME It's time for Governor Baldacci and his fellow spend-and-tax democrats to wakeup and let Dirigo die. It has been nothing but a complete and wasteful failure for Maine. Let it die and move on to reduce some of the other forms of wasteful spending from under the dome.report abuse