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	Podcast:		Maine Things Considered
	Episode:		Medicaid Battle Heads To State Supreme Court
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:00:52
	Publish Date:		2018-06-20 05:02:36
	Description:		A lawsuit that seeks to force Maine's health commissioner to implement Medicaid expansion is now before the state Supreme Judicial Court. The LePage administration has appealed a lower court's order to start the process. But consumer advocacy groups have filed arguments against further delays for the law that's supposed to take effect in less than two weeks. In early June, a Superior Court judge ordered the LePage administration to file a plan for Medicaid expansion with the federal government. The LePage administration asked for a stay of that order while it appealed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Last Friday, Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy denied the request for a stay and wrote in her decision that "the executive branch's refusal to act and follow the will of the people...has the potential to engender disrespect for duly enacted laws." The LePage administration appealed that decision Monday. That means Maine's highest court will now decide both issues: first, whether
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