Maine's former top health official Mary Mayhew to head Medicaid nationally

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Source: Portland Press Herald

Former Maine health commissioner and Republican candidate for governor Mary Mayhew has been tapped by the Trump administration to lead Medicaid, the health insurance program that covers more than 70 million low-income Americans.

Seema Verma, head of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a statement Monday that Mayhew has been named deputy administrator of the centers and director of Medicaid. She also will oversee the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, which is offered to some families with children who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid. The two programs cost more than $350 billion annually, or approximately 10 percent of the entire federal budget.

Mayhew is best known for her seven years as commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services under Gov. Paul LePage. During her tenure, she oversaw major changes to nearly all of Maine’s public assistance programs, including food stamps and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Mayhew also played a major role in eliminating certain adults from the state’s Medicaid program and, like LePage, she was an ardent opponent of expanding Medicaid, which was made allowable at the state level under the Affordable Care Act.

Maine voters did eventually vote by referendum to expand Medicaid but that expansion has been mired in legal challenges by LePage and still hasn’t been funded.

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Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2018/10/15/maines-former-top-health-official-mayhew-hired-by-trump-administration/

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Mary Mayhew - AKA Mary Mayhem - was an absolute disaster at DHHS in Maine.

A Complete and Total Fuck-Up.

This is why Trump wants her to run Medicaid.

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[Hoyt]

1. Although it's good he's tapped someone who supposedly understands Medicaid, she doesn't

sound like a good choice for advancement of the program. We gotta win in November.

[turbinetree]

2. So for seven years she was an administrator of Maine and she got heath care through the

taxpayers...................correct...........so she is another of those libertarian POS, so it is just fine and dandy for her to take and not give back...............................

[LBM20]

3. I'm from Maine. She fills the swamp. Vote out the GOP! VOTE VOTE VOTE.