Maine Governor Spent $53K in Fighting Medicaid Coverage

Maine Governor Paul LePage spent close to $53,000 on private lawyers to try to remove low-income young adults from the state's Medicaid program, even though Attorney General Janet Mills rejected pursing the case and told the governor he couldn't win, the Associated Press reports.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that the Affordable Care Act requires the state of Maine to keep providing Medicaid coverage to 19- and 20-year-olds from low-income families. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires states accepting federal Medicaid funds to freeze their Medicaid eligibility standards for children until 2019.