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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

These are often interrelated. I would guess that it will take time, probably 12 months from changes to start seeing an ease /13 #mepolitics

On the budget due to fewer incarcerations. These funds can then be shift to MaineCare for additional treatment. /14 #mepolitics

The shift to MaineCare is choice-based, but available to all Mainers. Insurance still managed at the state-level by Mainers /15 #mepolitics