Gov. LePage Refuses to Seek Medicaid Funding by Deadline
“Maine‘s Republican governor blamed lawmakers for his refusal on Tuesday to begin securing federal funding needed to expand Medicaid to well over 70,000 low-income residents. Gov. Paul LePage did not meet a deadline laid out in the 2017 voter-approved law to submit a routine application to ensure the state receives roughly $500 million in annual federal funding for expansion by July 2.”