R. Konig of Richmond, ME Onerous restrictions on insurance companies are why competition picked up their tools many years ago and left us with just a few players like Big Blue who doesn't mind passing along some of the perks like a $40 co-pay for every visit on top of a $5-$6K a year for what maine calls health care insurance.

Maybe Kofman could see to it that State workers get the same value in their "provided" benefits as us in the dreaded private sector.report abuse

Older\'nDust of Raymond, ME General Motors has finally realized people cannot afford $30k and up for a car; why doesn't Ms. Kofman investigate the COST of medical treatments such as the $5,500 chemo treatment??? That seems like a logical place to start making medical treatment affordable for ALL Maine citizens.report abuse

Joseph Martin of Cape Elizabeth, ME Please also note that prior to her appointment by Gov Baldacci, Mila Kofman was also on the Board of Consumers for Affordable Healthcare, a far-left liberal lobbying group that wants a state-run, tax-funded, single-payer health care system in Maine - that's "free" for everyone.

Oh, and in 2007, Consumers for Affordable Healthcare was paid a nice, round $200,000 of YOUR tax money for "Public Educ Services" whatever that is! I wonder if that's what they call it when these liberal lobbyists paint signs and bus protesters to Augusta whenever health care overspending is being discussed! They jam the halls with children in wheelchairs, then buy them lunch afterwards before driving them home. Was THAT part of the $200,000 Maine taxpayers gave these people?

Why not look into THAT, Mila Kofman? Why not a little more transparency on YOUR connections to this liberal lobbying group before you point your crooked finger at private insurance companies???


SOURCE: for the $200,000 check written to Consumers for Affordable Healthcare is teh outstanding site: www.MaineOpenGov.orgreport abuse