by Ruth Leubecker

Assailed by runaway prices and rampant red tape, Mainers, particularly seniors, are finding it increasingly difficult to navigate a consumer-unfriendly healthcare system. 

“Health care should be universal. It will save lives,” said Sen. Angus King last week. “My beliefs stem from my experience of many years ago. I caught cancer as a young man, and it would never have been caught without insurance.”