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Health Care

Published
March 22, 2017

Komen foundation closing Maine operation, ending Race for the Cure

The organization's directors made the decision after seeing race participation and fundraising for breast cancer research decrease in recent years.
Published
March 19, 2017

Changes lie ahead for House health care bill

It needs to provide more help for older people, Speaker Paul Ryan says. A vote is planned for Thursday.
Published
March 19, 2017

Challenge of rural medical care focus of college program in Franklin County

Over spring break, 16 University of New England medical and nursing students spent time learning directly from medical professionals and residents of Franklin County.
Published
March 19, 2017

Mainers would pay up to 7 times more in premiums under House Republican ACA replacement bill

Residents ages 55 to 64 would be hit hardest by Congress' overhaul, and small-town Maine could see premiums jump sevenfold under the House plan.
Published
March 16, 2017

Sen. Collins says she can’t support House health care plan in current form

The moderate Republican says 'Older people living in rural America would be really left behind.'

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Published
March 15, 2017

Facing broad opposition to health care plan, Republican leaders eye changes

House Speaker Paul Ryan says 'some necessary improvements and refinements' could be made to build support for the bill.
Published
March 14, 2017

Populists loyal to Trump rebel, further imperil health-care plan

They see it as a political trap and worry that it will fracture his working- and middle-class coalition.
Published
March 14, 2017

Citing opioid treatment needs, N.H. governor rejects Republican health care proposal

New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, says that the current Republican health care plan is 'definitely not a bill I'm signing on to, to be sure.'
Published
March 13, 2017

Medicare nominee confirmed by Senate

Seema Verma takes the reins as a House Republican health care bill would make sweeping changes to the agency.
Published
March 12, 2017

Ryan defends health care plan against criticism of Republicans, AARP, industry

The interview comes a day before the scheduled release of an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office expected to show how many people would lose coverage under the proposal.