The BDN Editorial Board operates independently from the newsroom, and does not established procedures or lead to reporting or enhancing content articles in other places in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. It can’t be stated enough: dental treatment is health care. For years, Maine has danced around the wise action of extending state health insurance […]
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Posted: Might 24, 2021 / 06:38 AM EDT / Updated: Might 24, 2021 / 07:05 AM EDT HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Patient advocates and health care employees are hosting an occasion to push lawmakers to take action. They want them to move forward with laws that would consider some electric power from health insurers and […]
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For the third calendar year in a row, the Maine Legislature will take up a proposal to develop dental rewards to adult Medicaid recipients, which would present dental coverage to about 70,000 residents. Even with Democrats holding the Home and Senate, and with a Democratic administration below Gov. Janet Mills because 2019, the effort and […]
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For older people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, preventive dental care is tough to come by. Number of can find the money for the out-of-pocket expenses — and lots of conclusion up with no tooth at all. Household Bill 172, sponsored by Rep. Rhonda Butler, R-Ville Platte, seeks to take care of that by demanding Medicaid […]
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