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Blog
November 26, 2012

An Innovative (and Free!) Approach to Improving Care for Homeless Patients

When student volunteers at the Baltimore Rescue Mission—a free clinic in East Baltimore that serves low-income and homeless individuals—recognized that the clinic was providing a lot of duplicated, unnecessary, and costly services to its patients, they took action. Part of the problem, they recognized, was that it was challenging to keep up-to-date records on such a transient population and that there was little to no record sharing between clinics similar to the Mission.

Blog
September 25, 2012

Obamacare Empowers Young Health Care Consumers

This blog was written by a guest blogger from Maryland.

I am a 25-year-old underemployed recent college graduate. I received a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Maryland in the spring of 2010. When I graduated, I was offered a full-time position with an engineering firm that had several transportation contracts. As the economy stalled, so did those contracts, and I was laid off in the winter of 2012.

Report
August 1, 2012

Worry No More: Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions Are Protected by the Health Care Law

Find out how many Americans with pre-existing conditions will benefit from the Affordable Care Act's protections against being denied health insurance.

Report
June 1, 2012

Dying for Coverage: The Deadly Consequences of Being Uninsured

Estimates the number of Americans who die prematurely because they don't have health insurance, has state-level breakdowns by week, month, and year.

Fact Sheet
February 1, 2012

Medicaid: Essential to America's Hospitals and Communities

Provides state-level data showing why hospitals are important to residents and state economies—and why Medicaid funding is essential to hospitals' bottom lines.

Blog
January 20, 2012

O'Malley: Why Maryland Loves Its Gov

Health Action 2012 got off to a great start with a star-studded opening plenary that included HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, health policy expert Stuart Altman, and Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Donna Edwards (D-MD). As if that wasn't enough excitement, we were lucky enough to be visited by Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley for lunch.

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