The Maine Green Independent Party denounces Governor Paul LePage’s attack on Mainecare.
The LePage administration and their allies in the legislature created a false crisis in our budget by pushing through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy in our state and now LePage seeks to place the burden of these giveaways on the backs of the working and poor, by ending healthcare coverage for 65,000 ordinary Mainers. This is nothing but a stark reversal in the movement for universal, non-profit health care.
We call on the LePage administration to act for the benefit of working class Mainers, not the wealthiest 1%. The Green Independent Party calls on our government to treat quality health care as a human right, not as a privilege that politicians can take away. Since our founding in 1984, the Green Independent Party has worked towards establishing a system of health care for all which, unlike the status quo in Augusta and Washington D.C., will protect all residents from having to make the choice between health or housing, between medical bills or food.
