Medicaid expansion still lacks votes to overturn looming veto
Source: Bangor Daily News
AUGUSTA, Maine — By a single vote Tuesday night, Sen. Tom Saviello, R-Wilton, secured approval of his proposal to expand the state’s Medicaid system, MaineCare, by using federal funds to buy private insurance for the state’s poorest residents.
Saviello was joined by only two of his Republican colleagues, as well as the entire caucus of minority Democrats, who agreed for the sixth time in three years that Maine should expand state- and federally funded medical insurance programs under the federal Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare.
GOP members joining Saviello to support expansion were Sen. Roger Katz, R-Augusta, and Sen. David Woodsome, R-North Waterboro.
Saviello’s victory is bittersweet for supporters of expansion, which is likely to pass in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives later this week to encounter an all-but-certain veto by Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage.
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