Supreme Judicial Court of Maine July 27, 1994 (Central Maine Medical Center v. Maine Health Care Finance Commission)

WATHEN Chief Justice,

dissenting.

I respectfully dissent. In the final analysis, this lengthy ease turns on the meaning of a single word. Both the plain meaning of section 396-H and the statutory purposes are served if the word “adding” is given the ordinary dictionary meaning of “to combine (numbers) into a sum.” Webster’s New World Dictionary, 2nd ed., s.v. “add.