We would not allow a private insurance company to not pay claims and we must not tolerate Medicaid doing the same. As governor, I will ensure Medicaid pays its bills and fix this problem once and for all.

I'd certainly welcome him to the upper echelon of the fashion world. I'm pleased to see it, too.

We must stop thinking that Augusta knows best. Maine people are smart, thrifty and varied. It is time government recognized that in how it regulates our health care system.

Historically, these esteemed institutions have been able to rely on their reputations. Now they understand that they must provide exceptional service, in addition to their clinical performance.

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.