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Maryland's Restrictions On Patient Choice

The State of Health Care Freedom in the 2010 Maryland General Assembly

Health Care

by Marc Kilmer

MARYLAND POLICY REPORT

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 pdf PDF VERSION MailE-MAIL THIS PrintPRINTER FRIENDLY Bookmark and Share

While national health care legislation received significant attention in 2010, there were also efforts in Maryland (as well as in every other state) to enact health care reform legislation. These reforms ranged from a wholesale overhaul of how health care is funded in Maryland to minor tweaking of insurance regulation. In general, these bills were reflective of two modes of thinking about how to reform health care: introduce more government regulation in an attempt to protect consumers or reduce government interference in the health care marketplace in an attempt to give consumers more choices and lower prices.

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