Joshua Sharfstein

Maryland is the only state that sets what hospitals can charge. A new proposal to preserve the state’s authority to do that would create incentives for hospitals to keep people healthy We hear from Carmela Coyle of the Maryland Hospital Association state Health Secretary Joshua Sharfstein.

"The Women and Minorities in Media" Festival is coming to Towson University. We talk to its founder, Elsa Lankford, and Kelcey Edwards, whose film Wonder Women will be featured.

April 3, 2013

Maryland is negotiating the biggest changes in its health system in four decades, even bigger than the changes facing other states, because Maryland is the only state with authority to set hospital charges that are paid by all insurers, and by uninsured patients.

Web Extra: Carmela Coyle on the growth rate of hospital costs

Web Extra: What would the change mean for Maryland hospital patients?

Web Extra: What is at stake financially with the change?

Web Extra: What would the Maryland Hospital Association have liked to see proposed that wasn't?

February 11, 2013

Mental health has played a significant role in the gun control debate over the last several months. Governor Martin O’Malley’s proposed gun control legislation, which had its first committee hearing last week, includes new mental health provisions. How does it handle the gun rights of the mentally ill?