Maine Revised Statutes Title 22. Health and Welfare § 327. Declaration of findings and purposes

A. Support effective health planning;

B. Support the provision of quality health care in a manner that ensures access to cost-effective services;

C. Support reasonable choice in health care services while avoiding excessive duplication;

D. Ensure that state funds are used prudently in the provision of health care services;

E. Ensure public participation in the process of determining the array, distribution, quantity, quality and cost of these health care services;

F. Improve the availability of health care services throughout the State;

G. Support the development and availability of health care services regardless of the consumer's ability to pay;

H. Seek a balance, to the extent a balance assists in achieving the purposes of this subsection, between competition and regulation in the provision of health care; and

I. Promote the development of primary and secondary preventive health care services.