Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative Education Fund

Lewin contact: John Sheils

The purpose of this analysis was to explore the expected costs and impacts of two alternative universal health reform plans for Maryland. Both of these reform scenarios would greatly redistribute health care costs across families in various income groups by shifting from today's premium based system to a tax based system where individual payments for health coverage increase in proportion to income. In this report, we present our analyses of the financial impact of these health reform models on various payers for health care including state, local, and federal governments.

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