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Many of Maine’s health systems are teetering on the edge of financial viability, less than a year before the bulk of federal Medicaid cuts will start hitting hospital budgets. About 40% of the state’s hospitals are currently losing money, and the pending cuts are expected to cost them millions more. Most of Maine's health systems are still recovering from years of significant losses driven in part by rising costs, hospital officials say.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s recent decision to pull its detainees from the Cumberland County Jail could leave local taxpayers on the hook, county leaders say. ICE already owes the county more than $1 million in unpaid payments, apparently due to last fall’s government shutdown. Under a federal contract, ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service pay the county $150 per day for each person the jail holds for them.
Mainers will not weigh in on whether to cease recreational cannabis sales in Maine — at least not this November. Organizers of the petition drive seeking to close Maine’s recreational cannabis market and strengthen oversight of the medical marijuana market failed to submit their petition signatures by Monday’s deadline. That does not necessarily mean the effort is dead, but it does mean it will not go to voters this year.
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