Medicaid expansion good for Maryland
May 10, 2013
Thank you for your recent article on a study of Medicaid the New England Journal of Medicine that addressed the role of Medicaid in promoting mental health and protecting families from financial ruin ("Study: Medicaid has mixed record in improving health," May 2). ... Read more »
Maryland Health Progress Act Passes Maryland House and Senate
March 27, 2013
Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative President, Vinny DeMarco comments, “We thank the Administration for continuing to push forward with legislation that will make sure we all have opportunities to provide coverage for our families. We cannot thank the Maryland General Assembly enough for moving forward with this life saving law. We appreciate our legislators in Annapolis for standing with Maryland's children, mothers, and fathers to pass this critical piece of legislation.”... Read more »
Maryland Takes the Lead on Health Reform
...Maryland was among the nation's first to move full throttle to implement the Affordable Care Act. The decision puts the state well out ahead in expanding access to some 300,000 people who will qualify for free or subsidized health insurance as of 2014, according to Suzanne Schlattman, Deputy Director for Development and Community Outreach, Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative Education Fund, Inc.... Read more »
Maryland will vigorously enroll the uninsured, starting October
Select coverage from the “Health Care Reform and Your Community" Ethnic Media Roundtable... Read more »
Great hearings and great press!
March 14, 2013
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Senate hearing for our Healthy Maryland Initiative yesterday. Here is a great article from the Maryland Reporter and blog post from the Maryland Budget and Tax Policy Institute about our initiative: Another tax hike on cigarettes and cigars gets kicked around March 14, 2013 at 12:03 am By ... Read more »
Media Roundtable on the Affordable Care Act
March 8, 2013
Thursday March 14, 2013 11:00AM 5900 Metro Drive Seton Business Park Baltimore, MD 21215 Those who are most likely to benefit from new health insurance options in the Affordable Care Act are least likely to know about them. Health Care for All! has joined with Advocates for Children and Youth, the Maryland Health Connection and ... Read more »
Taxing cigarettes saves lives
November 26, 2012
Editorial board's view: Perhaps the single most effective public health intervention Maryland could take would be to increase the cigarette tax... Read more »
MD mulls even higher tax rates on cigarettes
"People aren't going to spend $4 in gas to save $1 on the cigarette tax [in another state]," he said. "There will be a little bit of that, but ultimately you're going to have fewer people smoking."... Read more »
Strong support but gaps in knowledge about new health care law
November 20, 2012
Support for the new federal health care law is solid in Maryland, but a survey released yesterday by The Horizon Foundation and the Health Care for All! Coalition finds that implementing it is going to be a challenge – a lot of people don’t know many details about how it will work.... Read more »
Marylanders strongly support Affordable Care Act, poll shows
"What is troubling," DeMarco said, "is that those who stand to benefit the most from the law seem to know the least about it."... Read more »
