Maryland Health Care Leaders, Advocates Looking Forward to General Assembly's Regular Session

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After the General Assembly's special session in November, Maryland health care leaders and advocates seem to be experiencing an uncommon feeling as the regular session approaches next week -- satisfaction.

The special session brought some relief to Maryland's uninsured residents. A Medicaid expansion could cover more than 130,000 additional low-income Marylanders and cost more than $275 million by 2013.

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Maryland Health Care Leaders, Advocates Looking Forward to General Assembly's Regular Session

Lawmakers also resolved to offer health care subsidies to employers with fewer than 10 workers, in an effort to extend coverage to more of Maryland's estimated 800,000 uninsured residents.

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