Healthy Howard

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Healthy Howard is a county-sponsored health care program offered to certain uninsured residents of Howard County, Maryland. The program, which provides doctors visits and prescription drugs, has been nationally hailed as a model to offer health care to local lower income people without health insurance.[1]

The program started on October 1, 2008, with a plan to accommodate 2,200 people in a salary range of $35,000 to $63,600 for a family of four.[2] Plans were to increase this number by 2000 enrollees each year thereafter.[3]

Services are also offered to those who become unemployed.[4]

  1. ^ Dash, Julekha (August 14, 2009). "Health reform could mean the end for Healthy Howard program". Baltimore Business Journal.
  2. ^ Simmonsen, Derek (January 8, 2009). "County launches Healthy Howard outreach". Howard County Times.
  3. ^ Aratani, Lori (September 30, 2008). "Howard Health Initiative Ready to Enroll Uninsured". The Washington Post.
  4. ^ Simmonsen, Derek (February 6, 2009). "Healthy Howard opens to newly unemployed". Howard County Times. Archived from the original on December 27, 2010.
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