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Rethinking Maryland's Health Care Future

By Greg Scandlen
Published on Tuesday, January 27, 2004
MARYLAND POLICY REPORT

Consumers, employers, insurers, physicians, and policymakers in Maryland and nationwide face extraordinary challenges in bringing affordable health care to the American people. In the past two decades, there has been a revolution in medical technology and pharmacology, but costs have risen as our methods of delivering services remain mired in the past. Traditional means of financing—public programs like Medicaid and private programs like employer-sponsored health insurance—no longer seem up to the task. Employers face a competitive environment that impedes their ability to rais prices enough to cover growing health care costs, and state governments are caught in a dilemma of how to deliver on excessive promises in a time of shrinking revenue.

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