For release: 8.13.12
Contact: Jim Pettit
@jamesmpettit
Maryland
Lt. Governor candidate Jeannie Haddaway released the following
statement regarding costs required to implement Maryland's health
exchange. These costs were disclosed in Maryland Reporter August 11.
"Under the O'Malley-Brown Administration, implementing the new
health care law is more about politics, marketing and spin than
improving people's lives. The Administration wants everyone to believe
that somehow Obamacare is free, as if grants magically appear that
nobody has to pay for. They even said no state funds would be used to
launch the exchange, which we later learned was not true.
"If the new health care exchange is so great, then it should not
take $24 million in marketing and technical assistance for people to use
it. And make no mistake, this so-called 'outreach' is targeted towards
their political base. It's also strange that the O'Malley - Brown
Administration takes credit for creating 300 marketing temp jobs funded
by our own tax dollars. Government-run health care is bringing us an
83% healthcare tax. That won't be in the glossy brochures, because it's a
fact."
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Background:
Md. health insurance exchange to open this fall at cost of $200M
http://marylandreporter.com/2013/08/11/md-health-insurance-exchange-to-open-this-fall-at-cost-of-200-million-24-million-in-state-funds/#ixzz2bou7bml5
Obamacare will stick Marylanders with 83% tax increase
http://www.davidcraig.com/pr130805.php
Melfa, VA Eastern Shore Community College held a Pinning Ceremony for practical nursing program graduates August 9 in the colleges Workforce Development Center. The guest speaker was Jeannette Edwards, the Chief Human Resource Officer at Eastern Shore Rural Health System, Inc.. Clinical instructors, Peggy Bennett, RN, BSN, MEd, and Nancy Schwartz, RN, presented a pin to each graduate and conducted the candle lighting ceremony.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Commission approved a 10% toll increase Tuesday effective January 1, 2014 with a 10% toll increase to occur every five years thereafter.
On August 12, 2013, at approximately 11:45 p.m., Ocean City police responded to the area of Jamestown Road in reference to an indecent exposure involving a male exposing himself in a vehicle. Officers had responded to the area on previous occasions for similar complaints, however; the suspect had left the area before police arrived.
