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How the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Helps Pennsylvania

The Affordable Care Act puts the health of our families first. Learn how and when the new law will affect you.

Bringing Quality, Affordable Coverage to Pennsylvania's Small Businesses

Join PHAN's Healthy Main Streets Project to advocate for the tools and protections small business owners need to find high-quality, affordable health coverage.

Establishing a Competitive Health Insurance Marketplace

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, Pennsylvania can establish a new competitive health insurance marketplace that gives working families more control, choices...

Monitoring Health Insurance Rates in Pennsylvania

Current Pennsylvania law requires that insurance rates be “reasonable, not excessive and not unfairly discriminatory." Just what does that mean?

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Pennsylvania Moving Forward on Insurance Marketplace; Industry Working to Influence Lawmakers to Do the "Bare Minimum"
Submitted by Erin Gill on January 22, 2012 - 10:45pm
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In an email today, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department announced it’s intent to move forward on establishing a health insurance marketplace in PA. The Department has applied for funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to complete the planning and begin designing a new health insurance marketplace (an “exchange”) that needs to be open for business on January 1, 2014.
BREAKING: Bill to Give Health Insurers More Leeway to Raise Rates Passes

Submitted by Athena Ford on December 15, 2011 - 3:00pm

SB 1336 just passed through the General Assembly and is headed to the to the Governor's desk for his siganture.

The good news is that commercial plans (meaning not just the 'non-profit' Blues and HMO's) will actually be subject to review when they want to hike up rates on small businesses. Unfortunately, our legislators missed a golden opportunity to put some real protections in place for small employers in our state.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Your Bottom Line: What Health Care Reform Means for Pennsylvania’s Small Businesses

FREE WORKSHOP for Small Business Owners on the Affordable Care Act

This workshop will focus on what the new health care law--the Affordable Care Act--means for small business.

It will offer an in-depth look at key provisions aimed at lowering costs, increasing choice and ensuring better value for small businesses. A question and answer period will follow. Small business owners are encouraged to bring their questions.

Topics to be covered will include:

Small Business Health Care Tax Credits
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Small Businesses Are the Economic Engines in Our Communities.

We're Committeed to Securing the Quality Choices, Good Value, and Real Protections They Deserve.

Learn more about our Small Business Work--including upcoming workshops, information on how the Affordable Care Act helps small employers and what Pennsylvania lawmakers need to do to ensure access to quality, affordable coverage options for small business.

If you're a small business owner or self-employed, click here to add your voice to our Healthy Main Streets Coalition.

Help us understand the challenges you're facing, as a small business searching for affordable health coverage. Take our quick survey and give us some insight into the barriers preventing you from maintaining quality coverage so we can continue working to remove them.

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The Pennsylvania Health Access Network (PHAN) is working to protect and expand access to high-quality, affordable health coverage for Pennsylvania families, seniors and small business. We are committed to improving our current system so that it works better for all Pennsylvanians and gives folks real choices, real protections, and real security when it comes to their health.

Learn more about our work and how you can get involved.

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