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Welcome to Health Care for All Pennsylvania. We are a 501(c)(3)/(c)(4) nonprofit whose purpose it is to both educate citizens about the Single Payer Solution in Pennsylvania, and to see that the "Family and Business Healthcare Security Act of 2009" becomes the law of Pennsylvania so that ALL of our citizens are guaranteed quality, comprehensive, affordable, single-payer medical care. Please join our campaign to restore fiscal sanity, economic common sense, and moral clarity to the question of medical care for all. Working together, we all win, our communities win, our state wins, and our nation wins by our example. |
HB1660/SB400
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February 8
To share this story, click on the title, then click on the share button. From:Center Daily Times Online - http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/story/1777466.html
...Committee members also unanimously endorsed a resolution calling for passage of single payer health care, Senate Bill 400 and House Bill 1660, together known as the Family and Business Health Care Security Act.
"Not only does Pennsylvania now have the Democratic Party on board with the single payer health care for all," Chuck Pennacchio, executive director of Healthcare for All PA, said in a news release, "we also have the promised signature of our governor and the active support of Republican and Democratic leaders in both the state Senate and state House."
Pass legislation without corporate intervention
February 8
To share this story, click on the title, then click on the share button. From: Center Daily Times Online - http://www.centredaily.com/331/story/1754404.html
By:Brenda Black, HealthCare4ALLPA
Pass legislation without corporate intervention
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."
Martin Luther King Jr.
Pennsylvania's secret: Senate Bill 400 and House Bill 1660 would give comprehensive care to all Pennsylvanians for less than the cost of most Americans' for-profit insurance.
Pennsylvania health care bills save. They are House and Senate versions based on Medicare-for-All similar to that demanded and received by most of the industrialized world. Single-payer saves billions of dollars by eliminating for-profit insurance, whose costly bureaucracies disqualify people from care.
Why isn't Congress passing a single-payer system? Our Congress won't or can't control insurance companies because legislators take large donations from lobbies that demand support; they are afraid insurance companies and the media will sow disinformation (remember "Harry and Louise" ads about the Clintons' plan or current death panel hype); and perhaps insurance company employees would be put out of work.
Meanwhile costs drive millions into bankruptcy and 45,000 die yearly without life-saving health care. So Congress is building a bulky national plan that gives the insurance companies thousands of customers subsidized by billions of taxpayer dollars.
Some say, "I've got my insurance, so why pay for others?" If religious teachings that we are our brothers' keepers don't move us, consider that untreated people can and do infect the rest of us. We're already paying for the destitute who receive treatment, usually belatedly and more expensively, in emergency rooms.
And insurance is becoming more costly, as shown in statistical trends: People find insurance costs rising until they can no longer pay their bill or their insurance increasingly denies them meaningful coverage. This nation must find a reasonable way to cover the ever-increasing number of uninsured.
The Pennsylvania bills are estimated to save the commonwealth more than $335 million yearly in employee health care expenses (more than $18 million in Centre County).
Pennsylvania Democrats Unanimously Endorse Single Payer Senate Bill 400 and House Bill 1660
February 6
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Potential Massive Savings for Philadelphia
February 5
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http://www.whatsuptoday.net/
CITY OF PHILADELPHIA COULD SAVE $381,011,939 PER YEAR ON EMPLOYEE HEALTH CARE COSTS UNDER LEGISLATION NOW PENDING IN HARRISBURG
Philadelphia City Councilman Bill Greenlee (At-Large) will accept a symbolic check made out to Pennsylvania taxpayers by leaders of the healthcare reform group "Healthcare4allPA" at a press conference scheduled for Thursday, February 4, at 9:00 am at City Council's Caucus Room, Room 401, City Hall, Philadelphia.
According to surveys conducted by the statewide health advocacy group, under provisions of the bills, HR1660 and SB400, Philadelphia could reduce its current spending on health benefits to its workers by more than $381 millions per year.
