Health Care Reform and You- Erie PHAN Leadership Initiative Training

HEALTH CARE REFORM & YOU:

A Training for Advocates and Consumers on the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 

Join the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (PHAN) for a special Leadership Initiative Training on the new health reform law. Get the tools you need to understand the benefits of the new health care law and become an effective spokesperson and advocate for health care reform in your community.
This special training will offer an in-depth look at all the great changes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will bring to Pennsylvania families, youth, seniors and small businesses. We'll teach you everything you need to know!

           Topics will include:

þ  Messaging and Health Care Reform

þ  Insurance Reforms

þ  Exchanges and Subsidies

þ  Pre-Existing Condition Health Insurance

þ  How Reform Is Paid For

þ  Changes to Medicare and Medicare Advantage

þ  Medicaid Expansions

þ  Small Businesses and Health Care Reform

þ  Youth and Health Care Reform

þ  State Reforms & Issues: adultBasic, PA Fair Care, and HCR Implementation

 By the end of this interactive training you'll be able to talk to all your friends and neighbors about the new health care law, host your own house party or educational forum and know how to educate and effectively lobby your State Representatives or Member of Congress!

 WHO:      The Pennsylvania Health Access Network (PHAN)

WHAT:      Leadership Initiative Training on the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act

WHERE:   Word of Life Church—660 Hess Ave., Erie, PA 16503

WHEN:      Saturday, August 14^th, 2010 from 10am—1pm  

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP before Friday, August 13^th at 7pm by emailing Western PA PHAN Organizer Erin Gill at egill@pahealthaccess.org or by calling 412-512-9225.