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Single Payer Universal Health Care for All Pennsylvanians

Pennsylvania is on the threshold of companies after the second year, and add
breaking new ground because of her Single to this increased rates for participants
Payer Universal Health Care initiative, under PA ABC than they were paying under
HB 1660 and SB 300, which, if passed, Adult Basic, you can safely project that
will make health care available to every poorer Pennsylvanians will be forced to
Pennsylvanian. lose health insurance coverage.
Health Care For All PA is taking this People on the waiting list will
initiative to the next level, which I potentially be withdrawing their names.
will explain shortly. The Governor is not telling us the truth:
Meanwhile, the press ignores these Bills. that at the very least, PA ABC is under
Meanwhile, the HighMark/Independent Blue funded and enrollment ends when the money
Cross (IBX) merger is building its case. is spent.
Meanwhile, Governor Rendell plans to pass Yet Rendell continues to assert that PA
PA ABC which will cover only 200,000 ABC will cover everyone.
Pennsylvanians, out of the 1.4 million Additionally, PA ABC will also reinstate
who currently have no health insurance at the State subsidy for malpractice
all. insurance which the Governor had
This will make a bad situation much, much withdrawn previously, in the attempt to
worse here in the Commonwealth. gain support for PA ABC.
But no matter how media and corporate Malpractice would only be reinstated,
monopolies ignore the inevitable, we are however, for those physicians who add the
heading toward Single Payer one way or PA ABC patients as enrollees, with payout
the other. at low Medicaid-like fees.
Single Payer is publically funded while Health Care 4 All PA needs to empower
the Blues are privately funded. those legislatures who resist this ploy
The insurance companies compete against by helping them to see that resisting
the for profit powers represented by this makes moral sense.
Aetna and United and all the rest while (Thanks to Jerry Policoff for making
Single Payer is designed for the public available the above statistics on Adult
good. Basic and PA ABC. Jerry will be writing a
One enriches shareholders and an elite more comprehendsive article on this very
few while the other is designed to topic in the days to come).
provide quality, affordable health care Governor Rendell is on record as saying
for everyone here in Pennsylvania. he will sign HB 1660 if it comes across
The IBX/Highmark merger has prompted his desk.
concern among critics about competition Our grassroots efforts have many
in the insurance market and clout the new dimensions. We see the corruption of the
company would wield in setting insurance companies and we see the
reimbursement rates for hospitals and politicians who pander to them.
doctors, an article in Pittsburgh's But to date, we have 43 sponsors for HB
"Business Times", May 26, 2008 states. 1660 and SB 300 in the State House and
The consolidation of IBX and Highmark is Senate.
the largest insurance company deal ever Our growing grassroots movement needs to
proposed within any state and will create become aggressively disciplined and
a $22 billion dollar company. organized to fight the forces of
Our grassroots group, Health Care 4 All ignorance here in Pennsylvania.
PA, supports Single Payer because it's So we have taken it to the next level
the best way to fulfill our mission: to which is: Gaining support for an economic
bring quality, affordable health care to impact study to outline exactly how much
all Pennsylvanians. Universal Access to health care will cost
We've decided to protest the merger in the Commonwealth.
because it runs counter to our mission. We need the economic impact study because
Governor Rendell has cut a deal with our group is not a legislative body.
Highmark and IBX to help them get the The study does not guarantee passage, but
merger approved in return for their help, makes the case for passage.
financial and otherwise, in passing PA Keep in mind that Rendell's PA ABC did
ABC. not have an economic impact study.
PA ABC replaces Adult Basic which Sounds like it could have used one.
provides health insurance to The Casino and Gaming initiatives had no
approximately 55,000 poor Pennsylvanians. economic impact study.
Approximately 95,000 are on the waiting The bar is set higher for us.
list and these plus 120,000 others would We've hit every standard and crossed it.
in theory gain access to PA ABC. We will not back down.
However, because there is a 4% annual We will get the money for the economic
increase by the health insurance impact study in the Autumn of this year.




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