Intersection of public health and health reform-Maryland's approach

[Beatrice Yearwood]

Maryland has the luxury of being a small state with a fairly unexciting healthcare market from the healthcare delivery and health insurance perspective.  But don't let this take away from the fact that the state has a  well-structured process to take on federal health reform. At APHA there was still a kind of haziness in most conversations about "what will happen to public health now that we have health reform?"  Not much of that when I spoke to a group of MD APHA members.

 

Maryland formed a working group to tackle public health, the safety net, and special populations in the brave new world of health reform.  The group was a spin off from state's health reform coordinating council. 

Below is an excerpt on public health from the working group's first report. 

 

EXCERPT- MD Hlth Care Ref Coord Council Paper 10-31-2010.pdf

 

For more information go to:

http://www.healthreform.maryland.gov/