LePage digs in for Medicaid expansion funding battle
(WorldNews Politics)

Two days before the Legislature´s budget committee is scheduled to discuss how to fund the Medicaid expansion law Maine voters passed last month, Gov. Paul LePage reiterated a set of demands that he said must be met before his administration can fulfill the referendum´s mandate. In a Dec. 11 letter to legislative leaders, LePage laid out a number of conditions, including that there be no tax increases, that money from the budget stabilization...