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===Affordability===
*Encourage states to adopt comprehensive payment reform and consider options like hospital global budgeting, patient-centered medical homes, and accountable care organizations [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]**Supports an "all-payer" system [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/martin-omalley-believe-candidate-stands-11-issues/(PBS)]*Improve the value of Medicare [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]
**Launch a "Medicare Essential" program to provide comprehensive benefits (hospital, physician, prescription drug, supplemental coverage) in one opt-in plan
*Increase support for primary care and promote widespread adoption of medical homes [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Require clarity in healthcare billing and fairness for the uninsured [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Enforce anti-trust law to counter dramatic price increases [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Fight against corporate tax inversions [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Ban price gouging for prescription drugs [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Use the government's purchasing power to ensure reasonable drug prices [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Invest in health information exchanges [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Expand patients' access to their own health data [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Prioritize data security in the transition to electronic medical records [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]
===Expanded Access to Care===
*Build on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]
**Ensure access to affordable healthcare for immigrants
**Work with states to close the "coverage gap"
**Treat multi-employer and high-cost plans fairly
**Address high deductibles by covering critical services
*Support universal access to reproductive care [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]
**Promote universal access to prenatal care and family planning
**Believes abortions should be legal without any intrusion or interference from the government [http://coed.com/2015/10/29/martin-omalley-2016-platform-on-the-issues-views-stance-presidential-democratic/]
*Set a goal for universal access to primary, behavioral, and oral health care, supported by renewed investment in community health centers [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Eradicate lead poisoning by restoring funding for state programs and creating an interagency task force to find solutions to keep children healthy [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Reduce diseases and premature deaths caused by air pollution [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Mobilize communities to address the cause of health disparities [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Expand the National Health Service Corps and Area Health Education Centers and invest in the next generation of the health care workforce [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Task the Department of Health and Human Services with developing the basis for states, health systems, and health care providers for progress in health equity [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]
===Cures and Healthier Lives===
*Invest in NIH and FDA research [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Support promising therapies at every step of development [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Release clinical trial data to advance scientific discovery [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Invest in early childhood health [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]
**Provide stable funding for the ACA's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program
*Build on the ACA [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]
**Protect the Prevention and Public Health Fund
*Renew focus on preventing and treating infectious diseases [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]
**Set goals for disease prevalence for diseases like HIV, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis
*Reauthorize and fully fund the Older Americans Act [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Require Medicare and Medicaid programs to create a consistent set of incentives to encourage community-based care [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Encourage physicians to speak with their patients regarding end of life care and support the implementation of patient wishes [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]
===Mental Health and Addiction===
*Invest in strong community health systems [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]*Integrate behavioral health and physical health care [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]
**Introduce new incentives through Medicare and Medicaid to increase ease of access to behavioral health care
*Stop the criminalization of mental illness [https://martinomalley.com/policy/health-care/(MOW-HC)]
==Drug Policy==
