Taxes Eyed to Pay for Health Care Task Force Urges Maine to Require Full Coverage
Bangor Daily News › December 21, 2006
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AUGUSTA - A special task force suggests raising several state taxes to help pay for and expand the state's DirigoChoice health insurance program.
The Blue Ribbon Commission on Dirigo Health, which met for the last time Tuesday, also voted to recommend that Maine join Massachusetts, Vermont and several other states in requiring all residents to have health care coverage.See the full content of this document
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Taxes Eyed to Pay for Health Care Task Force Urges Maine to Require Full Coverage
In addition, the task force said that virtually all large and small Maine employers should be required to offer coverage to their workers or contribute to a public health care fund.
The commission will submit its recommendations in a final report to Gov. John Baldacci by the e...See the full content of this document
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