Health Care in Maryland: A Diagnosis examines crucial issues affecting Maryland’s health care environment and offers fresh solutions to those problems.
Experts in the fields of law, medicine, and health care analyze medical malpractice, Medicaid, mental health services, health insurance, and other aspects of the health care system in Maryland.
In this book you will find substantive presentations of health care issues and suggestions for effective public policy in Maryland.
There is growing concern that rising health care costs in Maryland are not sustainable at current levels. Maryland will spend more than $6 billion in FY 2005 on health and mental services, including Medicaid.
That represents 24 percent of total state expenditures for 2005. That proportion is expected to rise in coming years, threatening the state’s fiscal health while at the same time raising the prospect of under service to state residents. These and other crucial issues need to be addressed as soon as possible, according to the book’s contributors.