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How's Your Health Insurance?

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Two-and-a-half weeks before the deadline for enrolling in health insurance, we look at changes affecting what Marylanders will pay. Lara D. Wilson, Executive Director of the Maryland Rural Health Association, describes challenges and resources for the one-fourth of Marylanders who live in rural counties. And Andrew Ratner, Chief of Staff at the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange, explains how the state’s ‘reinsurance’ program has led to lower premiums.

Access the Maryland Rural Health Association here.

Access the Maryland Health Connection to purchase health insurance, here.

There are enrollment events happening around the state to purchase health insurance on site. Find that information here.

Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.
Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'