Gov. Martin O?Malley?s plan threatening to slash hundreds of millions in healthcare funds if the legislature fails to pass his tax-increase package caught the ire of health care professionals imagining the worst and Republicans denouncing the strategy as “fear tactics.”
“I don?t think this doomsday budget will come to pass,” said Howard County Health Officer Peter Beilenson, a Democrat. However, failure to resolve the tax debate at the state level could compromise the county?s health care access program by flooding it with the newly uninsured.
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