Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

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

Who are beholden to other Mainers for accountability. A much tighter leash on corruption/waste than down in DC. /16 #mepolitics

That is the rough outline. Tell me what is flawed to make the concept better? /17 #mepolitics

Good Tiffany. And as you say a "rough outline ". We need lots of minds studying this MaineCare public option initiative.

It gets us on the path to single payer.

Once upon a time, I was @GOP. The things that rubbed me the wrong way with single payer were:

1. The possibility of national administration. I really feel like this needs to be a state-level and state-driven initiative.