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| Cuts will annihilate safety nets |
| By Village Soup |
| Published: 01/06/2009 |
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MAINE - Health-care advocates from across the state and corrections officers from Charleston warned the Legislature on Monday, Jan. 5, that proposed funding reductions would decimate the social safety nets they provide. Medicare patients seeking primary care and nonviolent offenders soon to be released from prison would suffer, they said, though most conceded cuts are unavoidable in light of a growing revenue shortfall. Sen. Bill Diamond, D-Windham, chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs, said after Monday’s hearing that an estimated $832 million gap predicted between revenues and the cost of current services for the next two years will grow. “It’s going up,” he said. “I suspect we’ll soon be talking about a figure that’s closer to $1 billion.” The Revenue Forecasting Committee and Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission will meet in early February — three months sooner than scheduled — to update its projections based on holiday sales, employment and income data. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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