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Updated April 15 Immigrants in Maine could regain access to health care benefits Legislation sponsored by Assistant House Majority Leader Rachel Talbot Ross of Portland would roll back a 2011 change that prohibited non-citizens from receiving state Medicaid benefits. Share Dozens of advocates for immigrants in Maine offered their support Thursday for a bill that would restore health care benefits to thousands of non-citizen residents, many of them seeking asylum and fleeing violence in their native countries. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, looks to undo a decisio...

AUGUSTA — Sen. Chloe Maxmin, D-Nobleboro, introduced Wednesday LD 17, “Resolve, To Provide Rural Nonmedical Transportation Services to the Elderly and Adults with Disabilities Receiving Home and Community Benefits under the MaineCare Program.” The bill was the subject of a public hearing before the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee. “In our rural communities, a lack of safe, reliable transportation is a huge barrier for older and disabled Mainers,” said Sen. Maxmin. “For too many people, just going to the grocery store, picking up prescriptions, or running other ...