Maryland Lawmakers Fail to Bail Out 750 Thousand People Without Health Insurance

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Lawmakers again failed to bail out the 750,000 Marylanders without health insurance, but advocates said they are more hopeful than ever that a solution is close.

"This year laid the foundation for a substantial health care expansion, which is going to happen very soon," predicted Vincent DeMarco, president of the Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative, an advocacy group

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Maryland Lawmakers Fail to Bail Out 750 Thousand People Without Health Insurance

Health care reform advocates tried unsuccessfully to expand Medicaid to include families earning up to 116 percent of the federal poverty line, or $23,954 for a family of fo...

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