Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

This bill proposes to improve the healthcare decision-making and treatment process for prescriptions and testing by reducing the pre-approval (prior authorization) burdens placed on healthcare providers by health insurance carriers. Progress was made on reducing the burden of prior authorizations by the passage of LD 796.

Family Physician 40

Family Physician Family Medicine DO Primary Care 40

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. We could wear masks against Covid, but we couldn’t vaccinate against racism. We do talk about healthcare policy. There are other acute issues, blood pressure medication, diabetes.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community Screening IT 116

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . Their vaccines aren’t as effective.

Vaccination 100

Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100

Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 20, 2025

He wants Americans to eat fewer ultra-processed foods ; to decline long-established childhood vaccines against diseases like the measles, which we never see anymore ; and to drink public water supplies without fluoride, apparently as a boon to the dental profession. Diabetes is a big problem. Kennedy, Jr.'s

Chronic Disease 92

Chronic Disease Diabetes Screening Vaccination 92