Last week, thousands of people swarmed the steps of the Supreme Court to demonstrate support for the Affordable Care Act and highlight the many benefits and protections that we’ll all lose if the law is overturned. Among them were two of PHAN’s best activists, artist Theresa BrownGold and health educator Holly Dolan.
The Pennsylvania Health Access Network stood with local seniors, persons with disabilities and advocates at Senator Toomey’s office on Monday, Nov. 21st, to showcase public support for Medicare and Medicaid on the day the Congressional Super Committee announced it was unable to reach agreement on a plan to reduce the nation’s deficit by $1.2 trillion.
Greetings PHAN members! My name is Holly Dolan, and I am working with the PHAN "Messaging Committee" on a project called Health on the Horizon. The purpose of this project is to take control of the framing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and ensure its successful implementation in Pennsylvania.
Members of the Pennsylvania House Insurance Committee heard from a national expert Thursday on Massachusetts’ experience structuring a health insurance exchange.
Emma Lowenberg, an intern with the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, penned a great summary of the hearing at Third and State:
Plan Would Privatize Medicare, Turn Medicaid into Block Grant Program and Cut All Funding for Affordability Subsidies and Medicaid Expansion in the Affordable Care Act
Remember the political hay that opponents of health reform made by scaring the daylights out of seniors with relentless TV and radio ads that spread the lies that the Affordable Care Act would negatively impact Medicare? Well, now seniors (and everyone else) have reason to be afraid… Very afraid, and angry, and ready to fight back.
The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce convened in Harrisburg today for a hearing focused on rolling back the reforms of the Affordable Care Act.
This week will be a full year since the Affordable Care Act passed and still theopposition is campaigning tirelessly to destroy it.
In many states, including ours, legislation has been introduced to block or slow implementation. Votes have been taken in the US Congress to repeal it out right or weaken some of our favorite provisions.
The House Democratic Policy Committee, chaired by Rep. Mike Sturla (Lancaster) has been holding hearings about adultBasic and other critical health care issues in Pennsylvania—namely, the new GOP-led legislative attacks on the Affordable Care Act in Pennsylvania through things like H.B.
Not to be left out of the controversy, some PA legislators have jumped on the eager-to-repeal health care bandwagon by introducing a bill in the House invalidating the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act. Rather than tackle problems like unemployment and putting Pennsylvanians back to work, the opposition in Harrisburg is working to stop implementation of the Affordable Care Act and block all the critical protections it brings to Pennsylvania families.
This week will be a full year since the Affordable Care Act passed and still the opposition is campaigning tirelessly to destroy it.