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6 October
10:42 pm

We're losing three billion dollars [in health care funding for Maine]

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Troy Jackson, at Maine U.S. Senate General Election Debate 1 (WGME)

10:42 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figure attributed to federal cuts tied to the 'big beautiful bill' and Senator Collins — verifiable against actual budget or Medicaid funding data for Maine
What we foundThe $3 billion figure appears in official Maine state documents but refers to the impact of one specific provision (the provider tax moratorium), while the most authoritative and comprehensive official estimate of total MaineCare funding loss from HR 1 is $5 billion over 10 years — making $3 billion an understated total but an overstated figure for the net loss after partial federal offsets (~$2.5–2.7 billion).
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