Guarantees health care protection for all Pennsylvanians

Delivers quality comprehensive health care

Preserves the right of patients to choose their own doctors

No deductibles, co-pays, or lifetime caps

Prescription drug coverage + behavioral health coverage

Uses the collective buying power of 12.5 million Pennsylvanians to lower drug costs and costs for durable medical equipment

Covers dental, mental health, optical, emergency transport, addiction, transplants, DME, hospice and long term care

Reduces or controls administrative costs, executive salaries, and profits which now consume 20-30% of every premium dollar

Cuts workers compensation premiums by up to 50%

Lowers auto insurance rates for everyone

Ends extra expenses caused by “defensive medicine”

Provides long term care coverage

Offers $1000 annual tax rebates for active volunteer first responders

Solves the unfunded future health liability accounting crisis

Constitutes a true single-payer health system

Eliminates excessive private insurance surpluses

Eliminates waste and inefficiency inherent in multi-payer systems

Provides transition assistance to workers displaced by the plan

Avoids wasteful and duplicative capital investments in medical equipment or services in over-served areas

Establishes a culture of wellness

Funds a digital medical record system to eliminate redundancies and reduce prescription and treatment errors

Makes health care more efficient by reducing medical errors

Redirects state money

Places new emphasis on infection control

Levy on payroll

Levy on personal income

Contains costs through quality control and enforcement

Bans smoking in restaurants, bars and workplaces

Requires difficult changes (47+) to state laws and regulations

Relies on federal money

Incremental plans available for private purchase

Relies on a new 10-cent-per-pack increase in the cigarette tax

Retains employer sponsored/administered health plan model

Relies on taxpayer subsidies for the purchase of private insurance

Permits “Wal-marting” of coverage, i.e., funneling poor and low income individuals into low level “basic” insurance plans

Covers Pennsylvania’s estimated 150,000 illegal immigrants

Includes coverage for cosmetic procedures