Healthcare

House Expected to Vote on adultBasic Expansion Next Week

June 11, 2009

Lawmakers are expected to vote on House Bill 1 next week. Read fact sheets on the bill and other health care measures.

A Look at State Health Care Reform Bills

June 9, 2009

Read fact sheets on state legislation aiming to improve and expand adultBasic health care for low-income adults, protect small businesses from insurance rate spikes, and better fund community health clinics.

Cost of Failure on Health Reform Too Great

May 21, 2009

A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation projects that if federal health care reform efforts are not enacted, within 10 years the cost of health care for businesses could double and the number of uninsured Americans could reach 66 million, with middle-income families hardest hit.

Affordability of Health Care Top Concern for Small Business Owners

More than one-third of small business owners say that rising health care costs will likely cause them to scale back some portion of health insurance benefits for their employees, according to a recent

Pennsylvania Second Only to Michigan in loss of Employer-Based Health Insurance

2007 marked the seventh year of declining employment-based insurance in the U.S., according to a new report from the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute. While 41 states posted significant declines in coverage by employers, Pennsylvania again led most states in that downward trend. The Erosion of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance compared coverage rates in 2001 to 2007, finding that Pennsylvania outpaced every state but Michigan in the loss of employer coverage. Some of the key findings:

PA has Second Largest Decline in Health Insurance Coverage in US, Trailing Only California

Nearly half a million fewer Pennsylvanians are receiving health insurance through their employer than were getting it just five years ago, according to a report released jointly today by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC, and the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center in Harrisburg.

Estimated Number of Adults Without Health Insurance By County

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Health Access Network

PBPC participates in the Pennsylvania Health Access Network, a coalition of organizations working to make the case for expanding access to health care in Pennsylvania. More information is available at www.pahealthaccess.org.

Legislative Fact Sheets

State health care reform bills now before the Legislature:

House Bill 1: adultBasic

House Bill 746: Rate Protection for Small Business Owners

Senate Bill 5: Funding for Community Health Clinics

PA adultBasic

Enrollment: 45,954

Waiting List: 255,287

As of June 2009. Click on numbers above for more details from the Pennsylvania Insurance Department.