What's New
Responding to intense public pressure, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed two major health care reform bills, putting our state on the cutting edge of reform.
The first would make low-cost insurance available to those earning up to 300% of the Federal poverty level, extending coverage to hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians who currently can't afford coverage and are often forced to seek care in the most expensive way possible, at the emergency room
The second would limit the ability of health insurers to consider certain factors such as health history in setting rates for those plans, and forbide insurers from denying coverage to someone on the basis of a pre-existing medical condition.Insurers would also be forced to spend at least 85% of premiums on actually delivering care, guaranteeing that more of every health care dollar spent goes to people, not profit.
