Governor John Baldacci will ceremonially sign a resolution today that allows the Legislature to pursue updating a study on establishing a single payer healthcare system in Maine.
Resolve, LD 1072, appropriates $5,750 to hire a grant writer to apply for all of the funds necessary to update a 2002 study on creating a single-payer health care system in Maine, according to the bill. The study update is expected to cost $60,000, and the resolution says all of that money must come from grants.
If the Legislature has not secured the funding by August 1, the state will incur no further expenses for the new study.
