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Maine should create a state-backed public health insurance option.

Mainers who do not get insurance through work or MaineCare buy private plans on the state marketplace. This would add a state-backed plan that people could choose instead.

Bobby Charles

Republican

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Maine should create a state-backed public health insurance option.

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