The Maryland Public Policy Institute
The Maryland Public Policy Institute believes consumers should have more control over their own health and supports reforms that give patients more responsibility for managing it; make it easier for businesses to afford it; that expands the risk pool beyond Maryland to drive down costs; and that makes it portable from job to job for today’s modern work force. We do not support increasing mandates for coverage, which drive up costs and make it more difficult for businesses to offer insurance to employees. Neither do we support expanding state entitlement programs, which make health care coverage scarcer for residents and that will require higher taxes to finance.