Potential Medicaid Cuts Could Lead to More than 16,500 Medically-Preventable Deaths Each Year: Study

Protect Medicaid so cancer doesn’t become a death sentence for many Mainers

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Julia MacDonald is the Maine director of government relations for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. June is National Cancer Survivors month. I am fortunate to work every day with cancer survivors and have learned one thing: every person’s cancer experien…

Dr. Gene Dorio | Impact of Federal Legislation

As a physician, my duty has always been to guide patients in their health care needs and to recognize potential side effects of medication, surgery and risky medical decision-making. This is why it’s essential to acknowledge the impact pending federal legislation will have on the health care of all American citizens. Statistically, health care is already failing in the United States as life expectancy declines, and our ranking compared to the re…

All of us are Medicaid beneficiaries — whether we realize it or not

The ripple effects of shrinking Medicaid would impact more than the 70 million people who could not afford health coverage without it. Cuts would batter a range of public goods on which we all rely.

Pa. politicians fight to save Medicaid as Trump administration proposes funding cuts

Inside the East Liberty Family Health Care Center, patients receive a wide range of health care services, from general checkups to dentistry.

Proposed Medicaid Cuts Would Result in Thousands of Preventable Deaths, Study Finds

(MedPage Today) -- The Medicaid cuts currently being considered by Congress would result in thousands of preventable deaths annually, researchers estimated. If the current House bill were enacted, an estimated 16,642 preventable deaths (range...

Hospital ERs will be overwhelmed if $800 billion Medicaid cut passes, doctors warn

SUPERIOR TWP., MI — What could happen to low-income mothers, seniors, people with disabilities and many others who rely on Medicaid is a major concern among health care professionals at Trinity Health Ann Arbor hospital. Children going to their primary care doctors for checks could drop. Mothers might not be able to obtain breast pumps and people without health care coverage would overwhelm emergency departments, a group of OB-GYNs, community he…