Medicaid now covers our very poor seniors, pregnant women, poor parents, children, the disabled and our most vulnerable elderly citizens.
Expanding welfare Medicaid will go to non-disabled, working-age adults and will hurt the system intended to help those who really need it.
Expanding welfare Medicaid will cost Maine taxpayers $50 million to $100 million each year — year after year.
Medicaid is not Medicare. Senior citizen Medicare is a completely separate program.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control shows that the rate of drug overdose deaths is rising at a faster rate in Medicaid expansion states than it is in Medicaid non-expansion states.
Vote ‘No’ on Question 2 on Nov. 7.
John Shaw
Caribou
