Issue Position: Healthcare

Issue Position

I support Maryland's efforts to establish a health benefit exchange under the federal Affordable Care Act. Through this exchange, low- and low-to-moderate income Marylanders will be able to purchase affordable, comprehensive health care.

I also support efforts to reform the medical malpractice system. Very high medical malpractice premiums are increasing costs for patients and causing physicians, especially in the OB/GYN field, to leave their practice or retire early. I support creation of special health courts, whose judges would work exclusively on health care cases. I also support structured settlements in malpractice cases, as well as efforts to level the negotiating playing field between physicians and HMOs.

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