Health care
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PublishedDecember 17, 2019
Trump administration seeks to boost organs available for transplant
The effort could yield 6,000 more organs annually, health officials said, a step toward reducing the 114,000-person transplant waiting list in the U.S.
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PublishedDecember 16, 2019
Budget deal puts access to health care above curbing costs
The bipartisan deal just announced in Congress protects access to health care under the Affordable Care Act, but it also ditches one of that law's main cost controls.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2019
Regulators focus on Lewiston’s Marshwood nursing home as problems mount
Five Maine nursing homes are on a federal list of problem facilities. Four, including Marshwood Center, are owned by the same national company.
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PublishedDecember 12, 2019
House votes to empower Medicare to negotiate drug costs
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bill would cap Medicare recipients' out-of-pocket costs for medicines at $2,000 a year, but the measure has no chance of passing the Republican-controlled Senate.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2019
CDC sends experts to fight measles outbreaks in Pacific islands neighboring Samoa
Measles has sickened nearly 4,900 people, killing 71, most of them children under 5.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2019
White House backs bipartisan deal curbing consumer health costs
The legislation aims to curb rising health care costs, including taking steps to limit “surprise” medical bills that can plague patients treated in emergency rooms.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2019
Adult in York County is first flu death of the season in Maine
Eight people have been hospitalized so far this flu season, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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PublishedDecember 5, 2019
ACA enrollment down so far in Maine, and Medicaid expansion is a big reason
Through Nov. 30, a total of 16,613 Mainers had signed up for Affordable Care Act insurance, down from nearly 24,000 at the same time last year.
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PublishedDecember 5, 2019
Mercy Hospital gets $1 million challenge grant
The grant will help the hospital finish up fundraising for its move to the Fore River Parkway campus.
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PublishedDecember 4, 2019
Maine Med set to open 64 rooms for cancer patients in new tower
The hospital's $534 million expansion and renovation, which includes the Coulombe Family Tower, is expected to be completed by 2022.
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