adultBasic Enrollment and Waiting List Maps Updated
More than 40,000 Pennsylvanians were enrolled in the state’s adultBasic health insurance program, while 384,144 people remained on the waiting list for the program, as of April 2010.
To give you a picture of where these people live, PHAN, with help from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project and the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, has put together the following maps showing enrollment and waiting list numbers by county. We will update these maps on a monthly basis.
The adultBasic program is a critical safety net for working individuals who are unable to obtain – or to pay for – employment-based or individual coverage. The program is in jeopardy as a critical source of funding for it - the Community Health Reinvestment Agreement - is set to expire at the end of the year. Learn more about that issue here.
You can click on the following maps to view larger PDF versions of them.
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Please contact us at PHAN with your stories ASAP!
We are working round the clock to save adultBasic, and come up with the funds to keep the program going at least through June 30th--the end of the state's fiscal year. If we're going to win on this, we have to put a ton of grassroots pressure on Gov. Corbett and the legislature to act now to save adultBasic.
We're looking for folks on adultBasic to share their stories with us and with reporters who have been covering this issue so that our elected officials understand the lives that hang in the balance and the real people who will suffer if adultBasic is allowed to expire on Feb. 28th.
Please contact us ASAP if you're willing to share your story, or if you know other folks on adultBasic that would be willing to get involved. We need all hands on deck to get Corbett and the legislature to change course.
Call Antoinette at 267-971-1680, akraus@philaup.org or Erin at 412-512-9225, egill@pahealthaccess.org as soon as you can. We hope to talk to you soon!
Keeping up the fight,
the PHAN team
This is a Crime Not a Crisis
Pennsylvania's insurance companies profit from suffering.http://www.healthdemocracy.org/painsure.html
Adult Basic Health Insurance in PA
Dear friend,
If you're using PA's Adult Basic plan, you should be aware that the "Blues," the Blue Cross Plans in PA which are the funding source for Adult Basic, are planning to stop contributing in December of this year . . . that is . . . unless enough of us raise hell to stop this from happening.
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