Judge Gives Maine February Deadline To Implement Medicaid Expansion

A Maine judge on Thursday (Dec. 6) set a new deadline of Feb. 1 for the state to adopt regulations to begin enrolling people in Medicaid expansion, essentially guaranteeing that outgoing Gov. Paul LePage (R) will not have to take any further steps to implement the voter-approved expansion law he has blocked for more than a year. At the same time, the judge castigated the LePage administration for refusing to implement the law and called LePage’s arguments about the dire...