title: The Maine squeeze on health coverage. Is Maine's health care crisis a harbinger of rural health care's future?
abstract: The state of Maine--mostly rural with an economy supported by small businesses--is struggling with a health care insurance crisis. Are Maine's problems a harbinger of what's to come in other rural states?
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Asplund
mesh_terms: D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007750:Labor Unions; D008281:Maine; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D012954:Societies, Hospital; D014481:United States