Healthcare Policies

Not enough doctors

2012-05-10 11:44:00

The Supreme Court's ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, expected in June, will determine the future for countless Americans. Health care reform debates have elevated the plight of millions of uninsured Americans to the national...

Health centers win funding to expand services

2012-05-01 14:47:00

Maryland is slated to receive almost $15 million in the next round of funding from the federal health care reform law to upgrade and expand community health centers, mostly in the Baltimore area. Health centers are a main provider of primary care...

Obama and Romney surprisingly similar on health care

2012-04-26 12:04:00

With Mitt Romney essentially assured the Republican nomination for president, the time has arrived to compare his (supposedly) differing viewpoints on health reform with President Barack Obama's. As many commentators and policy analysts have recognized,...

$1.34 billion in rebates because of health care reform

2012-04-27 08:20:00

Insurance companies are expected to pay out nearly $1.3 billion in rebates this summer because they haven't complied with a provision under health care reform that they devote more money to health care and less on administrative costs and profit,...

Sun's coverage of health care veers left

2012-04-10 06:00:00

I was astonished by the recent article regarding the Affordable Care Act by Eileen Ambrose ("Oppose health care act at your own risk," April 1). In order to educate the masses on this bill, I assume Ms. Ambrose has a law degree and has read and...

Campaign to highlight options for uninsured

2012-03-19 04:09:00

For those who have heart disease, cancer, diabetes or another condition, buying health insurance can be impossible. "I was denied, denied, denied," said Jamie Engels, a 29-year-old Baltimore woman with a kidney disorder, about applying for private...

Case study lauds Healthy Howard program

2012-03-09 14:36:00

Offering health care services at 75 percent of the cost of traditional insurance, Healthy Howard has served as a good example of how to reach out to the underserved, according to a recent case study of the program by a Bethesda-based health-care...

Federal judge named to Maryland Women's Hall of Fame

2012-03-11 12:19:00

Federal judge Diana Motz, of Homeland, a longtime member of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, is one of six women named to the 2012 Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. A Clinton appointee to the court in 1994, Motz, now 68, was the first Maryland woman...

Head start on health care

2012-04-02 03:00:00

Even as the Supreme Court considers the fate of the federal health care reform act, Maryland lawmakers should press ahead on legislation aimed at setting up a state health care exchange. Such an exchange would make it easier for consumers to find...

Hey, Justice Scalia: Mandate prevents freeloading

2012-04-03 07:30:00

In the arguments before the Supreme Court on the individual mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act, Justice Antonin Scalia likened it to a slippery slope that could lead to the federal government forcing citizens to buy broccoli. In response, U.S....

Health exchanges will benefit Maryland families

2012-02-15 10:13:00

It's no wonder Maryland families are so hard pressed to find good, affordable health insurance — premiums have outpaced earnings, and the field of insurance options is confusing. Even if a family is fortunate enough to have coverage, it's hard to...

St. Joseph Medical Center's future unclear

2011-12-28 16:31:00

When a star cardiologist at St. Joseph Medical Center was accused of performing hundreds of unnecessary medical procedures in 2009, it changed the course of the Towson hospital and now raises questions about its future. St. Joseph plans to narrow its...

Kit Rafferty, left, Sean Phillippi, center, and Amy Ritter, right, protest Gov. Rick Scott's health care policies, Monday, March 26, 2012, at the Renaissance Fort Lauderdale Cruise Port Hotel.

2012-03-26 00:00:00

House staff member Glynn McGehee holds a flow chart of the health care law with the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the center before the House Republican Policy Committee holds a news conference on the first day of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the

2012-03-26 00:00:00

Sydney P. Scarborough has joined Jones Lang LaSalle as a managing director in its Healthcare Solutions group. She will expand relationships with hospitals and health care systems in the Midwest, which stretches from Minnesota to Texas and Ohio to Nebraska, and forge new ones.

2011-06-06 22:00:00