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Medicaid expansion allowed a hundred thousand people here in the state of Maine to get access to health care.

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Hannah Pingree, at Maine Governor General Election Debate (Maine Public)

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Why we checked itSpecific figure about the number of people who gained health care access through Maine's Medicaid expansion — verifiable against enrollment data.
What we foundThe core claim is directionally accurate but imprecise: peak enrollment under Maine's Medicaid expansion reached approximately 106,587 (October 2023), and more than 130,000 Mainers have received access since the program launched, but current enrollment has since dropped to roughly 96,688 as of June 2025, making '100,000' an overstatement of the present figure.
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