The LaMarche Healthcare Plan
 
Calculate Your Company's Healthcare Costs

Find out how much you will save under the LaMarche Healthcare Plan when every one of your employees has access to healthcare (and everyone else in the state does, too).

Just enter the following information about your company to see how the LaMarche Healthcare Plan can help your business. And don't forget that with Pat's Plan, there will be no more premiums, deductibles or co-pays.

The LaMarche Healthcare Plan will provide lifetime healthcare for each and every Mainer. The Plan provides healthcare — not simply insurance. For more information, see Pat's Healthcare Plan.

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50% current annual Worker's Comp. premiums
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Pat LaMarche held her second online townhall meeting from 7:00 to 8:00 AM on October 3rd. Participants asked questions for themselves as well as others, with the topics ranging from healthcare to eminent domain, and from abortion to the new medical school in Bangor. Her next online townhall will be a three-in-one-day marathon on Friday, October 13 at 12 noon, 4PM and 8PM. No matter how busy you are, please find an hour in your schedule to chat with Pat at one of those three times. You can use AOL, MSM, Yahoo or any other IM handle. And please encourage your friends to join her as well!   join the chat  

Chris Miller, winner of an astonishing 24% of the Democratic Primary votes, urges his supporters to vote the candidate, not the party label. His primary candidacy was about putting people first, and after looking at all the candidates in the race, it was clear to him that only one candidate believes in putting the needs of Mainers ahead of all other issues. That candidate is Pat LaMarche.   read more  

Maine needs tax reform, jobs, and universal healthcare. Mainers need small business and educational opportunities. One in ten Mainers is below the official poverty line, and too many of us are one serious illness away from losing our homes and our savings. How did we get to this place? Is this the world we want for ourselves, our neighbors, and our children?   read more  

 
 Pat LaMarche
Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006

Pat LaMarche to Participate in Maine Women's Policy Center Gubernatorial Forum in Bangor

Pat will participate in the Maine Women's Policy Center Breakfast of Champions gubernatorial forum at the Spectacular Event Center in Bangor, 7:30 AM - 9 AM.   read more  
 Pat LaMarche
Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006

Pat LaMarche to Participate in State's Largest Environmental Debate

Pat will participate in the state’s largest environmental debate. Hosted by the Maine Conservation Voters Education Fund, the 2002 event drew 500 people. This year’s event will be held at the Eastland Park Hotel in Portland. Arrive early for a good seat. With Pat present, it promises to be an excellent debate!   read more  
 
 Thank You

Lib. of Congress: Pat's Campaign Considered Historic

October 7, 2006: On October 2, the LaMarche for Governor campaign was contacted by the Library of Congress and told that its www.pat2006.com website was being archived in the LOC's official 2006 Election archive. The LOC has archived campaign websites of historical importance during the 2000, 2002 and 2004 election campaigns.   read more  
 We Can Do It!

LaMarche Proposes State House Daycare

October 5, 2006: Pat LaMarche announced her plan to provide daycare at the state capital to encourage women to run for the legislature. More than half the people in Maine are women, yet many younger women with children are effectively shut out of running for higher office because they do not have available daycare.   read more  
 
 SunJournal.com
October 11, 2006, Lewiston Sun Journal

LaMarche Daycare Plan Draws Applause

Excerpt: "Pat LaMarche says, as governor, she would provide day care at the State House as a way to encourage women to run for the Legislature. Her remarks at the Women's Policy Center "Breakfast of Champions" drew a round of applause and general agreement from the other candidates."   read more  
 Seacoastonline.com
October 4, 2006, Seacoast Online
By Deborah McDermott

LaMarche Wants Universally Healthy Maine

Excerpt: "Pat LaMarche said she wants to lead Maine into the kind of prosperity that derives from a universal health care plan enjoyed by virtually every other industrialized nation in the world. LaMarche's proposal, which would be the first in the nation, is based on the recommendations of two Maine Blue Ribbon Commissions on Health Care, in 1995 and 2002."   read more  
 
 Pat LaMarche Healthcare Plan to the Rescue
October 3, 2006, Bangor Daily News
By Patricia LaMarche

Universal Healthcare Plan: Let's Get It Done

Excerpt: "With strong leadership, and with the enlightened self-interest of our business community, civic and spiritual leaders, and health care practitioners, we can provide health care for every Mainer."   read more  
 Kennebec Journal
October 1, 2006, Kennebec Journal
By Editorial

Clean Elections Undermined By Two Parties

Excerpt: "No matter how much legal hairsplitting the candidates, their representatives and their parties throw at us, the ads aired by both the Republican Governors' Association and the Maine Democratic Party on behalf of, respectively, Chandler Woodcock and Gov. John Baldacci are about trashing their opponents and electing one of those guys governor of Maine. Plain and simple."   read more