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 »
Maryland voters supportive of health reform, survey finds
November 20, 2012
Maryland voters are supportive of health care reform even though some still haven't grasped all the details, a new survey has found.... Read more »
Marylanders standing to benefit from health reform law know least about it, survey says
November 19, 2012
Those numbers suggest there is significant room for improvement in educating the public about the law before it fully goes into effect January 2014.... Read more »
MD Health group proposes another cigarette tax hike
November 15, 2012
Smokers in Maryland could have to pay more to light up. The health group, Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative based out of Baltimore is proposing a $1 tax hike on cigarette sales. ... Read more »
Health advocates want to increase cigarette tax
The same group that successfully pushed to double the state's cigarette tax in 2007 wants the General Assembly to add another dollar per pack next session. ... Read more »
Coalition starts campaign on increasing state’s tobacco tax
...calling for the increase in the state’s tobacco tax by a dollar to reduce teen smoking and fund public health care programs.... Read more »
Health group proposes another $1 cigarette tax hike
“In 2007, the money that was raised help to fund a major health care expansion program for over a 100,000 people in Maryland,” DeMarco said. “It was really successful and we want to replicate that success of 2007.”... Read more »
Media Advisory
November 12, 2012
On November 14, 2012 at 11am on Lawyers’ Mall in front of the State House in Annapolis, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett will join local government, student, teacher and faith leaders to call for a dollar increase in the state tobacco tax to reduce teen smoking and fund health care and public health needs. ... Read more »
Radio ad launched to celebrate affirmation of Affordable Care Act
November 8, 2012
“By re-electing President Obama on November 6 the American people reaffirmed the Affordable Care Act,” said Vincent DeMarco, President of the Maryland Health Care For All! Coalition.... Read more »
