Hundreds of Mainers received an automated telephone call that could influence the ongoing debate to expand Medicaid to more than 60,000 uninsured Mainers.

Listen to a recording of the poll

The computerized poll asks survey participants if they would support expanding Medicaid health insurance if they knew that one in three people eligible for coverage are former prison inmates.

The poll contains that and other negative assertions about Medicaid expansion that raised questions about whether the survey is a push-poll.

Listen to a recording of the poll above.

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