Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance & Financial ServicesLD 1045 An Act To Support Universal HealthcarePublic Hearing May 12, 2021 10:00amOPPOSE SUMMARY:This bill establishes the Maine Health Care Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all residents of this State. The bill is modeled on proposed legislation considered in Minnestoa. SUGGESTED TESTIMONY:Members of the Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Committee: My name is Jessica Sullivan, I am a health care professional writing in opposition to LD 1045 which would implement universal health care/single payer plan, called the Maine Health Care Plan, by January 1, 2024. In its fourteen pages, LD 1045 makes sweeping statements and promises coverage of virtually every medical, dental, rehabilitation, long term care and home care situation to anyone who applies. This would be a complete state government takeover of every aspect of healthcare in Maine without any feasibility studies or cost projections whatsoever. My concerns include the following:
LD 1045 promises an “everybody gets everything they want” healthcare utopia and people will only have to pay “ what we think they should pay”. Critical definitions for terms such as efficiency and care quality, are missing. LD 1045 promises that there will be “enough health care providers to guarantee timely access to care”, yet there are no studies on the effects to providers of the very likely specter of decreasing reimbursement. Decreasing reimbursement can lead to fewer providers which adversely affects both access to care and the quality of care. LD 1045 also seems to stepping in to “Certificate of Need “ realm by limiting provider expenditures. Many universal health care/single payer plans have budget caps. In Canada, for example, patients wait for the next fiscal year to have a needed medical service when money for that service has run out in the current year. This bill is a dangerous rush to universal health care without any research, cost and feasibility studies, and stakeholder inputs. LD 1045 is on an astoundingly irresponsible fast track. I urge you to vote “no” on LD 1045. Thank you, Jessica Sullivan, MPH Cape Elizabeth *Kaitlin Hunter and David Kendall,”Single Payer Health Care: A Tale of 3 States”, Third Way, July 17,2019. Click HERE to TestifyInstructions: INCLUDE PERSONAL SHORT STORIES EventsEvent: The Hyper Sexualization of School ChildrenThe featured speaker will be SHAWN McBREAIRTY: He is the Director of Special Projects for the Maine First Project, and has personal experience with the hard-left’s goals to indoctrinate school children. In 2020, his opposition to CRT in Greely High School brought him national attention. He now works to inform parents about Leftist indoctrination in public schools. Scott Booth and Emily Hinman for Falmouth School Boardwith Special Guests Ed Thelander for U.S. Congress Jennifer White for Maine State Senate Tammy Ryan for Maine House of Representatives Scott Jordan for Maine House of Representatives 2022 Lawn and Garden PartyFeaturing Dr. Jean Yarbrough
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