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Proposal would expand preventative dental care to 70K adults April 26, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) The Maine Legislature is taking up for a third consecutive year a proposal to expand preventive dental coverage to about 70,000 adults under MaineCare. Maine is one of 10 states that provide only emergency care, but that would change with under the proposal to add preventive services to the state’s version of Medicaid. A public hearing was held on Monday before the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee. “The way that MaineCare delivers oral health to adults is irrational, financially wasteful and promotes low-quality results,” House Speaker Ryan Fecteau said during Monday during a news conference. ....
increase font size Maine lawmakers take up new effort to expand adult dental care under Medicaid Democrats have been trying to expand coverage since 2019, but the effort was derailed when the Legislature adjourned abruptly in 2020 in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Share For the third year in a row, the Maine Legislature will take up a proposal to expand dental benefits to adult Medicaid recipients, which would provide dental coverage to about 70,000 residents. Despite Democrats holding the House and Senate, and with a Democratic administration under Gov. Janet Mills since 2019, the effort has failed to cross the finish line. The last attempt was shelved after the pandemic stalled out all but the most urgent legislative priorities in March 2020. ....
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Maine Voices: All Maine young people deserve access to our state’s natural landscape H.P. 1087 sets us on a course toward equitable access to the outdoors for all Maine youth, regardless of the resources of their school, community or family. By Nathan BroaddusSpecial to the Telegram Share Katie West, a teacher at Lyseth Elementary in Portland, and a class of third-graders examine aspects of trees before starting to paint them during an outdoor art class in the woods last Nov. 13. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer No year in memory has shown so many of us that we need to be outdoors – that it is not optional, but essential. So many Mainers sought the outdoors for our physical and mental health that Maine state parks saw a record-shattering 3 million visits in 2020. The outdoors has been more than just a way to get out of the house; it is a reminder of deep ties that make us feel alive, more authentically connected with others, more linked to the natural la ....