Healthcare Justice Campaign

Progressive Maryland believes that healthcare is a human right. We believe that everyone deserves and should get the care they need when they need it. We support an improved Medicare For All Health system.

We organize, advocate, and lobby for policies that will:

  • End Medical Debt 
  • Lower Prescription Drug Costs
  • Support safe staffing levels, good pay and working conditions for health care workers.
  • End racial and gender disparities in health care.   
  • Promote public health programs that provide preventive care and promote wellness.

Current Campaign

 

Care Over Cost is a national grassroots campaign fighting the power that health insurance corporations have over our lives and health.

Too many insurers: 

  • Won’t approve doctor recommended treatments or prescriptions
  • Won’t cover the full cost of services we need 
  • Won’t pay for care already received

That’s why we’re organizing to:

  • Confront insurance companies
  • Get lawmakers to crack down on these practices 
  • Win patient protections and industry accountability 
  • Build public support for Medicare for All 

Take Action on Care Over Cost:

Progressive Maryland’s Core Activities and Actions 

Legislative: Identify priority legislation to support or oppose each MGA session and in each Congress  

Base Building: Community outreach and door knocking

Coalition Building: Collaborate with unions, health advocates, public interest and civil rights groups to build a collective voice and power

Public Educational/Member Engagement: Teach Ins, community forums, town halls, speakouts 

Corporate Pressure Campaigns: confront Insurance Companies and Big Pharma for price gouging and standing in the way of our care

History/Past Victories

  • Hospital Patient Protections like the Medical Reimbursement Bill, SB0944/HB0694, which initiated a program for hospitals to reimburse patients who were qualified for free or reduced cost care but were billed.
  • Creation of the Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) 
  •  Access to Care Act (CASA led legislation) 
  • Local Medicare For All Resolutions passed by Prince Georges, Montgomery County, Anne Arundel County Councils and City Councils in Baltimore and Frederick
  • Contributed to passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (2022 in Congress)  working with state and national allies

Partners in the Healthcare Justice Work

PM is proud to be: 

A leader in the state’s End Medical Debt Campaign Maryland

A leader in the national Care Over Cost campaign. 

Member of the state HealthCare For All Prescription Drug Affordability Campaign Coalition

Affiliate of People’s Action 

Progressive Maryland is a founding member of the Maryland Progressive Healthcare Coalition. 

 


 

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

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