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It's Time to Cover the Uninsured

 

Next week we observe Cover the Uninsured Week, a national grassroots mobilization to put a face on the more than 47 million Americans who are forced to live without health-care insurance because they and their employers simply can't afford it.

 

The state House got more than a month's jumpstart on trying to solve the problem when we sent to the Senate legislation that would help hundreds of thousands of our working adults gain access to affordable health-care coverage while helping small-business employers with their insurance costs. Our plan, called Pennsylvania Access to Basic Care, also maintains the pledge to help doctors pay their medical malpractice insurance premiums.

 

While America leads the world in health-care spending, it trails other wealthy industrialized nations in making sure its citizens can afford to see a doctor when they are sick. It's a trend that must be reversed.

 

You can join the fight to help cover more uninsured working adults by urging Senate leaders and your state senator to act. Visit our action center at www.pahouse.com and lend your voice to the hundreds of thousands of working Pennsylvanians who have no insurance.  

 

   

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