Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

These rates, with whatever federal reimbursements are "profitable" - use that "profit" to remove deductibles, cover more /5 #mepolitics

Low income, and increase payments to providers (probably in that order). /6 #mepolitics

3. Businesses could also buy-in using the same methodology as consumers. /7 #mepolitics

4. Expand coverage for mental health care & substance abuse. This should drive a few higher wage earners into smaller towns, /8 #mepolitics

Bringing a small boost to hard hit communities and helping keep medical care access in rural areas. Side benefit - this /9 #mepolitics

Will also give more options for assisting those in jail who really belong with mental health/addiction. /10 #mepolitics

5. Address how we handle criminal charges. In my personal experience, most folks in Maine who are in jail are there for... /11 #mepolitics

A) mental health, B) self-medication/addiction, C) poverty, and/or D) domestic violence /12 #mepolitics