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Several thousand more Marylanders have enrolled in health insurance since the open enrollment period ended about two months ago.
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Read More »5 takeaways from decision to scrap Maryland Health Connection
If you haven’t heard by now, Maryland’s health exchange is toast. Kaput. It may have been the governor’s baby, but it’s been thrown out with the bathwater.
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Read More »Health exchange enrollment bumps up
Enrollment on the Maryland health exchange bumped up this week. The most-represented age group among Marylanders who purchased private health plans is the 55-64 age group.
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Read More »Enrollment back to a trickle
The number of new enrollments on Maryland Health Connection declined over the past week “as expected,” officials said in their Friday enrollment report.
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Read More »Walgreen joins move to private health insurance exchange
Walgreen Co. is joining a growing push from big businesses to shift more responsibility for finding insurance onto their employees as health care costs continue to climb. The nation’s largest drugstore chain said Wednesday that it will send workers to ...
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Read More »Lt. Gov. Brown announces $123M grant for health exchange
Maryland has received a $123 million federal grant to support development of the state’s health benefit exchange. Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown made the announcement Thursday in Baltimore. Under the federal health care law, Maryland’s exchange is due to be operational ...
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Read More »SEC seeks tighter rules for agencies rating debt
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators advanced tighter rules Wednesday for agencies that rate the debt of companies and governments. Credit ratings can affect a company’s ability to raise or borrow money. They can also influence how much investors pay for securities. ...
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Read More »Battle begins over health care insurance exchange
ANNAPOLIS – Business interests argued Tuesday for a slimmed-down version of a public health care insurance exchange proposed by Gov. Martin O’Malley to bring the state in line with the federal health care overhaul passed last year. “We have an ...
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Read More »Md. insurance brokers worried about proposed health benefit exchange program
ANNAPOLIS — Independent health insurance brokers and their clients lobbied legislators in Annapolis on Tuesday to try to prevent being put out of a business by a new health benefit exchange program proposed by Gov. Martin O’Malley. “A new health ...
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