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Health care fraud may be a symptom of a curable illness | Letter

Published in the Portland Press Herald on March 20, 2026 by Philip Ptacin, MD, lives in Portland. I’m writing in response to John Schaberg’s letter of Feb. 25 (“Dr. Oz may want to focus more on Medicare fraud”). While I certainly agree that fraud, in any situation, hurts all of us, I believe that often the institutional fraud . . .


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Single Payer ‘Hands Down’ the Best Way to Solve High Healthcare Costs, Advocate Says

What has been the greatest contributor to high healthcare costs in the U.S.? Weissman: The thing that raises healthcare costs in the United States above competitor nations more than anything is the massive administrative waste that’s due to a multi-payer private system. There’s also a huge amount of profit-taking by the insurance companies, by drug . . .


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Maine AllCare: Winter Updates

WINTER 2026     Photo by Carl Newton on Unsplash We need your help to get signatures!  Health care is once again a top issue for Maine voters. Last fall, a small group of Mainers filed a universal health care ballot initiative with the Secretary of State: a Resolve, directing the Maine legislature to develop legislation establishing a . . .


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Limiting what Maine hospitals can charge offers relief from rising health care costs

Published in the Bangor Daily News on March 13, 2026 by doctors Richard A. Evans, lives in Dover-Foxcroft, and Linda Sanborn, lives in Gorham. We all need relief from high health care costs. As medical professionals, we care deeply about the health of patients and the strength of Maine’s health care system. We know our hospitals . . .


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Here’s how health care costs can be brought under control | Letter

Published in the Portland Press Herald on March 9, 2026 by Julie Pease, MD, lives in Topsham Universal health care will reduce unnecessary administrative complexity — and expense. It took an insurance executive to reinforce my conviction that we need publicly funded universal health care! In a Feb. 20 op-ed, Denise McDonough, chief executive of Anthem . . .


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