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Insurance providers, not the federal government, should collect tax paid by those who fail to buy health insurance

Healthcare is a Human Right – Maryland, led a rally Saturday to push for a single-payer health system because it says health reform doesn't do enough

Employers won't be required to offer health insurance under Obamacare for more than a year, and many are welcoming the delay as they balance staying in compliance with staying in business.

President Barack Obama's greatest accomplishment may be his undoing unless he can fix the health insurance exchange website.

Affordable Care Act still plagued by loophole that gives some an incentive not to buy insurance until they are sick

GOP criticism may be over-the-top but if Obama wants to allay public anxiety over faulty marketplaces, he can start with greater transparency

Arbitrary restrictions on nurse practitioners in Maryland law limit patients' access to care.

Maryland Health Outreach and Enrollment Tour Visits Harford

A four-decade-old economics paper on market uncertainty undergirds the Obamacare exchanges.

Roughly half of Maryland employers will see their unemployment insurance tax drop by about 70 percent next year, the result of the state's rebound from recession, the governor said Wednesday.

Marylanders who were able to sign up for health coverage last week on the state's new insurance exchange did so under the condition that their information could be shared with law enforcement.

Maryland health officials on Friday turned over to the federal government a plan that would overhaul how hospitals are paid for treating patients to promote lower admissions and better care.

The National Women's Law Center says the health care law known as the Affordable Act will be good for women, providing them access to crucial preventive services. The group outlines the benefits here.

Baltimore home rebuilt after storm damage

At least one group of government employees remained busy Monday as the state worked to process more than 16,000 unemployment insurance applications from federal workers in Maryland filed during the first six days of the U.S. government shutdown.

If you searched online in recent days for Maryland's exchange, you might have come across other websites, some of which belong to insurance brokers.

Maryland Insurance Commissioner Therese M. Goldsmith describes the kinds of plans that will be offered on the health insurance exchange, called Maryland Health Connection, when people begin enrolling Oct. 1.

Tom Clancy, the Baltimore-born author whose novels include "The Hunt for Red October, "Red Storm Rising" and "Patriot Games," died yesterday after a brief illness at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 66.

Young people, known as the invincible generation, are often criticized as whiny, entitled and irresponsible. But they may now have the most clout in one of the biggest overhauls of the country's health system ever.

Maryland is a leader in implementing the Affordable Care Act, and its residents will start to feel the benefits when the state's health insurance exchange opens on Tuesday.

Come Tuesday, thousands of residents will be able to log onto the state's health care exchange, the Maryland Health Connection, to browse for medical insurance and even buy a policy.

Federal government shutdown or no, Maryland demonstrates how the unfairly-maligned health care reform law can work for the common good

The way Maryland hospitals do business would get a complete overhaul under a plan proposed by state health officials that they hope to test for five years.

IWIF is changing its name and corporate structure on Oct. 1, the workers' compensation insurer said Tuesday

House Republican effort to defund Obamacare suggests they are owned by the insurance industry

President Barack Obama will travel to Prince George's County on Thursday to discuss health care days before health insurance exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act will open for business, a White House official said Saturday.