Progressive Maryland Is Working To Transform Our Healthcare System to put

  People and Patients Over Profits!

 

Medicare For All!

If you live in Maryland’s Second Congressional District please email or call Rep. Olszewski (CD 02) and ask him them to join his fellow Maryland Representatives: Raskin, Mfume, Ivey, Elfreth, and McClain Delaney as sponsors of the Act.

Facts and Talking Points Resource

 

Reclaim Medicaid Campaign!

One in four Marylanders use Medicaid to cover their healthcare needs. Almost half of our children rely on Medicaid along with residents who are living with disabilities, the elderly, and working folks who don't get health care insurance from their employers and can't afford to buy insurance. 
The 2025 Federal Budget cuts to Medicaid total more than $1 trillion and will start to take effect in July of 2026. The funding cuts and changes to eligiblity will put tens of thousands of Marylanders at risk of losing Medicaid. 
The state must find the revenue and resources to replace the funding cuts to allow us to protect the people and services that Medicaid covers. One proven way is to change how we manage the Medicaid program. We can: 
  • Drop our reliance on the nine private Managed Care Organizations who receive the state contracts to manage the state Medicaid program. 
  • Adopt a publicly administered management model that will significnatly reduce overhead costs and streamline the system making it easier for enrollees, doctors and practitioners, as well as the state government
  • Connecticut made such a transition in 2012 and since then has saved $4 billion and achieved better health outcomes

Progressive Maryland supports HB1112 to renew Maryland's Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission in order to deal with the rising costs of health insurance and thee growing uninsured population; and to look at solutions to the Medicaid funding cuts like  moving to a direct payemtent Connnecticut style system to manage our Medicaid progam.

More about the bill here:
Protect Medicaid HB1112 One pager
Take Action!

Sign the on-line petition to reclaim Medicaid   

Take the Survey

pgmd.us/newmedicaidsurvey 

Read more in the PNHP white paper on Removing the Middlemen from Medicaid

PNHP research paper on Removing the Middlemen from Medicaid

 

When we organize we win!

Email Patty at patty@progressivemaryland to get the zoom link.

 


 

Point of Contact:
Patty Snee
Healthcare Justice Campaign Lead Organizer
[email protected]