Healthcare

READ MY FULL HEALTHCARE PLAN HERE: MAINE WELLNESS

Consider that 60% of all healthcare dollars in Maine are spent treating preventable illnesses. What if we took a different approach, focusing as much on maintaining good health as on treating illness? What if we rewarded healthy behaviors and paid for healthy outcomes, instead of just paying for expensive procedures after one gets sick? Then we could provide essential health care services for all Maine citizens at a cost we could afford and sustain over time.

Maine’s not-for-profit hospitals and clinics, our physicians and care givers offer us a unique opportunity to provide healthcare at a price that Maine businesses and taxpayers can afford, while still preserving individual choice and the important doctor-patient relationship. We will replace our statewide dependence on excessively expensive health insurance with a new and better approach that is based on three principles:

1. Everyone in Maine should have access to essential health care services.
2. The program must be financially sound and sustainable. We will make incentives work for us rather than against us.
3. We will get costs under control by rewarding consumers’ healthy behavior and paying providers for quality performance and outcomes.

You can read my entire plan here: MaineWellness: Building a Healthier Maine