July 4 will mark the first anniversary of H.R. 1, President Trump’s signature megabill (the inaptly named “One Big Beautiful Bill”). Marylanders are already feeling its harms, and those harms will only grow in coming years. Ultimately, the only solution
While we celebrate important progress here in Maryland — including the passage of Senate Bill 357 and House Bill 424, which empower the state’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board to lower the cost of high-priced medications — we cannot afford to
Everyone deserves quality and timely access to healthcare. We can strengthen the health of Marylanders by proving affordable healthcare to our communities and remove barriers that often produce socioeconomic and racial-ethnic health disparities. Such a barrier includes ineligibility resulting from
The rising cost of health insurance is forcing many Maryland families to make tough choices between taking care of their health and meeting other basic needs. Insurance premiums have grown three times as fast as household incomes in Maryland since
More than 40,000 Maryland kids aren’t covered by health insurance, and that needs to change. These are kids at risk of not seeing a doctor or getting medicine when they are sick, and unlikely to get routine preventive care, like
