(NEWS CENTER) -- Governor Paul LePage says his plan to close a $120,000,000 hole budget gap in Maine's Department of Health and Human Services will mean thousands of Mainers will be taken off the MaineCare rolls.
Among the cuts the governor says are needed: stop coverage for 16,000 Mainers who don't have children; and drop people ages 18 and 19 who are still on their family's plan.
In all, the administration says, it plans on taking 60,000 to 65,000 current MaineCare customers off the plan.
NEWS CENTER's Rob Caldwell talks about all this with political analysts Phil Harriman and Ethan Strimling.