PA Facts & Figures

Ready, Set, Go! Here's What You Need to Know to Get Covered:

We are less than a year away from the day when everyone will have access to affordable, quality health coverage. It won't matter where you work, how much you earn, how old you are, or if you've been sick in the past -- affordable health insurance will be at your fingertips.

Get Ready for a Break on Health Care Costs:

Submitted by pahealth on April 22, 2013 - 2:49pm

It's going to be a new day for health care on January 1st, 2014. No more denials for pre-existing conditions. No more getting charged more because you happen to be a woman. And no more financial ruin over health care costs -- thanks, in part to new tax credits under the Affordable Care Act for working and middle-class families to afford coverage.

Spotlight on Pennsylvania's Nursing Homes: Improving Quality, Protecting Care

PA Nursing Home Report (March 2013).pdf

We all have a stake in making sure Pennsylvania's nursing homes are doing right by our loved ones and the workers who care for them. That's why PHAN is supporting new measures being discussed in Harrisburg to:

PA Budget, Tobacco Funds and the Latest on Restoring adultBasic

Submitted by pahealth on June 21, 2011 - 1:32am

On June 16, 2011, 55 organizations, including PHAN, signed on to a letter to Pennsylvania state lawmakers urging them to preserve the state's Tobacco Settlement Fund for health care purposes.

Shared Sacrifice? PA Lawmakers Cut adultBasic While Taking Lavishly Generous, Taxpayer-Funded Health Coverage

Submitted by pahealth on May 31, 2011 - 12:03am

On May 15th, Bucks County Reporter Jo Ciavaglia began a “State of Health” series to take a look at the health benefits our elected officials in Pennsylvania are receiving at a time when Pennsylvania is facing a $4 billion deficit, when Gov. Corbett and a majority of these legislators say that we “just can’t afford” adultBasic, which covered 42,000 working people, and during a time when when these legislators and Gov.

Pennsylvania News Editors, Political and Health Reporters

Gov. Corbett Offers No Solutions for Reviving adultBasic in Budget Address; Allocates Remaining Tobacco Settlement Money to General Fund

Submitted by Erin Gill on March 15, 2011 - 12:42am

The Governor’s budget—as we expected—does not allocate any funding for adultBasic, which was allowed to expire (despite all of our best efforts) on Feb. 28^th. His budget also takes tobacco settlement money previously dedicated to adult health programs like adultBasic and shifts it to fund general budget items.

What You Can Do in the Next 11 Days to Save AdultBasic

Submitted by Erin Gill on February 17, 2011 - 2:34am

Action Alert: There are less than 2 weeks left to save adultBasic health coverage for 42,000 working Pennsylvanians, and we need your help to push our legislators to avert this impending disaster before it's too late.

Two bills have been introduced in the state legislature that would come up with the $52 million necessary to keep adultBasic alive through the end of the state's fiscal year (June 30th).

Help Us Restore adultBasic

adultBasic by County

Protecting Pennsylvania's Health: Standing Up for the Affordable Care Act

ACA Timeline and Summary (Jan 2012).pdf

ACA Summary Brochure.pdf

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law on March 23rd, 2010, puts an end to some of the worst insurance company abuses and levels the playing field to give working families, seniors, and small businesses access to the kind of stable, quality, affordable health coverage that has been out of reach for so many, for far too long.

Consumers and Advocates Act to Save AdultBasic--Notes and Next Steps from Pittsburgh

Submitted by Erin Gill on December 8, 2010 - 11:34pm

More than two dozen activists, people of faith and adultBasic consumers came together in Pittsburgh to call attention to the disastrous consequences that will be felt by 43,000 working Pennsylvanians if the $54 million shortfall in adultBasic funding isn’t resolved by the end of the year.