Medicaid Expansion Opponent Picked to Lead Medicaid

Health Leaders: A former hospital lobbyist who spent most of the past decade as Maine's health commissioner under Gov. Paul LePage has been tapped to lead Medicaid on the federal level.

Mary Mayhew earned a reputation in Maine as someone who, alongside LePage, championed additional limits on the public benefit programs she oversaw, reducing enrollment in the state's Medicaid program by 67,000 beneficiaries between 2011 and 2015 then opposing Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.

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