For decades, politicians have used isolated stories about public assistance fraud to divide people and build support for cuts that ultimately hurt working families while benefiting the wealthy and well-connected. That strategy is back again in Maine.
Fraud should always be investigated and stopped. But Mainers deserve facts, not political fearmongering designed to undermine health care for hundreds of thousands of people.
Here are seven things Mainers should know about political attacks on MaineCare, Maine’s Medicaid program.
1. This is part of a long-running political strategy, not a good-faith effort to improve government
Attacks on Medicaid and other public programs
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