Mainers Make Plea to Governor LePage: “Support the Affordable Care Act”

Yesterday, the Maine People’s Alliance delivered more than 2600 postcards to Governor Paul LePage, asking him to stop denying coverage to Maine people by joining a lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act.

Steve Mistler of the Lewiston Sun Journal did a great job covering the delivery of the post cards:

AG say Maine will join health care lawsuit ‘soon’

AUGUSTA — Newly sworn-in state Attorney General William Schneider said Tuesday that he was ready to add Maine to the list of more than 20 states challenging the constitutionality of the federal health care law.

Schneider would not say when he planned to join the lawsuit, but he indicated an announcement was imminent. At least three other states with newly elected Republican governors and attorney generals announced Tuesday that they too were challenging the law.

That news, along with a pending symbolic vote by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal the law, prompted Democratic lawmakers in Augusta to suggest Schneider’s decision was part of a coordinated national effort by Republicans to undercut President Barack Obama’s most significant legislative achievement.

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The New England New Network also had incredible coverage. To view their story click here.