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Maryland Health Exchange has opened its website for browsing insurance plans. - Ammlung: On insurance, we're between a flood and a hard place
- The hugely successful CHIP program that provides health coverage for children will expire unless Congress acts.
- There is a saying, "An honest politician is one who when bought, stays bought." Thus far the current Republican regime hasn't delivered that tax cut yet that their wealthy donors were paying for.
- Everyone says the Graham-Cassidy health care bill is "extreme." What about Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All?
- The fact is that the Medicaid program which this proposal would decimate has saved the lives of many Marylanders and helped many others lead better lives.
- We are the only advanced industrialized country that does not provide universal health care for its citizens.
- The latest Republican repeal and replace plan for Obamacare is, perhaps, even worse.
- Our View: Early indications are that it isn’t much better than previous proposals that were ultimately rejected this summer and, in some ways, might actually be worse.
- Medicaid represents the single largest source of federal funding to our state. Loss of that funding because of federal caps, block grants and cuts would shift costs back to the state.
- Federal, state officials look for ways to help smokers kick the habit
- The Office on Aging and Independence will host its first dental screening fair on Saturday at the North Laurel Community Center, offering free dental screenings to the first 100 eligible attendees.
- As our nation struggles to align health care needs with political designs, it is critical that we remember the necessity of open, welcoming care for all communities.
- State regulators approved double-digit rate increases for Obamacare consumers in 2018.
- By at least one measure, the Eastern Shore has benefited from Obamacare more than any other part of Maryland. And yet the mostly rural region has also been a stronghold for Republicans.
- More than 8,000 checks have been mailed to former patients of Johns Hopkins gynecologist Dr. Nikita Levy as part of a class-action settlement, but not everyone has yet received a full payment.
- Maryland seeks to expand hospital cost-control program to include doctors, other providers
- The 25 million people who live among the Appalachian mountains have struggled to keep up with health gains of the rest of the nation, falling behind in most
- The transgender community deserves the same health care coverage, specific to their standard of care, as cisgendered people. It’s time for Md.’s Medicaid program to include transgender specific care.
- The number of drug-and alcohol-related deaths in Maryland climbed 37 percent in the first three months of the year, with most occurring in people taking opioids laced with fentanyl.
- The former White House drug czar questions the Trump administration’s commitment to dealing with the nation’s deadly opioid crisis while President Donald J.
- President Donald Trump and his administration are expressing moral values that have no market value, says Rev. Jesse Jackson.
- Panel hears of of Obamacare successes, perils in Maryland
- Maryland can do more to protect the dental health of seniors.
- The failsafe "skinny repeal" plan for Obamacare is yet another terrible idea.
- Congress needs to do something about out-of-control drug prices.
- Hopkins study shows that the Medicaid expansion did not lead to significant growth in emergency room use.
- Both parties have become defined by their lies and their refusal to accept reality. It's a problem bigger than health care, but health care is probably the best illustration of it.
- U.S. lags developed nations in availability and affordability of health care.
- A bipartisan group of 11 governors, including Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, said Tuesday they oppose Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to repeal the health law known as Obamacare.
- Republicans couldn't muster the votes to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act; President Trump's suggestion to repeal and delay is an even bigger non-starter.
- While controversy rages in Washington and around the country over the Republican effort to kill Obamacare, Maryland leaders are anxiously watching in fear of
- Four incumbent state legislators who represent parts of southwestern Baltimore County have filed for re-election as a slate, a contrast to the 2014 election
- The recent Fourth of July holiday got me thinking … What does Independence Day really mean? Fireworks displays, a trip to the beach, a family picnic, a
- Carroll County saw 25 deaths related to drug and alcohol poisoning in the first sixth months of 2017. That's according to the latest figures from the Carroll
- Dental and health professionals worry that many elderly people in Maryland are going without dental treatment because they simply can't afford it.
- Republicans must decide: Can they stomach a tax on the richest Americans?
- Contrary to claims, the federal government has tracked Medicaid costs closely.
- Now that I'm old enough to start thinking about retirement and health insurance programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, these abstract
- The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that the ranks of the uninsured would increase by 22 million Americans under a Senate bill to replace
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- I think the flawed Republican health-care plan is very much open to criticism, from the left and the right, but this rhetoric is repugnant and dangerously stupid.
- Maryland on Saturday will become the first state in the nation to protect funding for Planned Parenthood from a possible federal cutoff.
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- If Kellyanne Conway thinks there are no cuts to Medicaid, she should ask the people who stand to lose coverage.
- WASHINGTON — Pushing off a vote on the horrible Senate health care bill (the Better Care Reconciliation Act) is a victory, but not cause for opponents of
- President Trump's support for Medicaid cuts put other vital programs at risk
- The Senate's bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act is not a health-care bill. It's a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans paid for by the poorest
- If President Donald Trump thought the House's health care bill was "mean," what's the right word for the Senate version?
- Last month, Md. became the first U.S. state to enact a law that protects people from price gouging by prescription drug manufacturers, despite long odds. Here's how.
