When he left work at Kirtland Air Force Base in 1983, Dave Coulie, a retired Air Force captain, thought about moving to a state that doesn't tax military retirement pay like New Mexico does.
After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.