Graham Platner - A "reporter" with Fox "News" asked me if I thought I was too extreme or too radical to defeat Susan Collins here in Maine. Here’s what I told him:
I don’t think it’s radical to try to bring down costs for working Mainers.
I don’t think it’s radical to try to make sure that our communities don’t get hollowed out because housing has become unaffordable for young people.
I don’t think it’s radical to try to create a health care system that doesn’t exist just to screw over working people all for the benefit of a health insurance CEO.
There’s nothing radical about thinking that the working people of Maine should be able to afford groceries, buy a home, or have a health care system that isn’t collapsing before their eyes.
What’s radical is somebody like Susan Collins who has, for decades now, passed policies that only support corporations and billionaires – to the detriment of working people.
Press Herald - Months after Congress enacted sweeping changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the number of Mainers receiving benefits has plummeted by more than 11,000, according to state officials. The new law shifted more costs to states, slashed benefits to certain groups of people and ended exemptions to work requirements for many others. Rural areas of Maine — where food insecurity rates are the highest and more people tend to rely on SNAP — are being hit especially hard by the changes, according to hunger prevention advocates.
One in five adults in the U.S. have used a GLP-1 drug. Doctors see the medications as an unprecedented tool in the fight against obesity, yet because they’re so popular and powerful, they’ve gotten very expensive, so only a small percentage of insurance plans in Maine cover them and that number continues to fall. Read more.
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