PA Legislation

Yesterday the Pennsylvania Senate voted on Senate Bill 1336. PHAN released the following statement immediately following the vote.

Senate Bill Gives Health Insurers More Leeway to Raise Rates

HARRISBURG, PA (December 7, 2011) - Antoinette Kraus, project director of the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (PHAN), issued a statement on the Pennsylvania Senate's passage of SB 1336:

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.

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

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.