As Legal Battle Continues, Maine Legislature Reconvenes To Take Up Medicaid Expansion Funding

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R), steadfast in his refusal to implement the state’s voter-approved Medicaid expansion, is asking the state’s supreme court for a stay of a lower court ruling that he must submit paperwork to CMS to start the expansion -- even as Maine's lawmakers reconvened Tuesday (June 19) and took up legislation to fund the state’s share of expanding the program. LePage has said in the past that he will implement expansion if the legislature earmarks money to...