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Healthy Howard Plan Featured on CNN

The Healthy Howard Access Plan was Featured on CNN over the July 12th weekend. CNN's Anchor Tom Foreman remarked "As politicians debate the best way to reform health care, they're looking for models everywhere, all over the world, in different states. One county in Maryland has come to light as providing one example. Our Kate Bolduan was there. She spoke with a woman who says "the county's plan saved her life."

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Healthy Howard Health Plan featured in Hopkins Magazine

Our innovative initiative to provide health care access to all county residents is the topic of a new article in Johns Hopkins Public Health, the magazine of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Follow this link to read “Keeping Howard Healthy” online.

National Public Radios’s (NPR) All Things Considered Travels to Howard County to Talk about Health Care

From NPR: “With health care overhaul back on Washington's agenda, NPR went to one locale to see how the big national issues play out there. In Howard County, Md., a prosperous suburb near Baltimore, we spoke with patients, doctors, administrators and employers about the costs of health care and access to the health care system.”

• June 15, 2009 – The Trials of Paying for Health Care in a RecessionPatients, doctors and employers in Howard County talk about how expensive health care is — and how hard it is to pay for in a recession. Click here to listen to the podcast.

• June 16, 2009 – In New Model, County Offers Low-Cost Health Care A new county-based program aims to provide the uninsured access to health care. Lessons learned from this effort will inform the larger health care debate. Click here to listen to the podcast.

• June 19, 2009 – The Costs of Health Care – Finding Ways to SaveHealth care providers are seeking ways to save costs. Getting people to go to primary care doctors instead of the emergency room, electronic record keeping and a single-payer system are discussed. Click here to listen to the podcast.