Lowering costs through access to basic health care
Pennsylvania Access to Basic Care (PA ABC) is an innovative package of health care reforms that would improve the economic conditions of health care providers, reward small employers who offer health care to their employees and offer a private sector approach to providing an affordable health care product to uninsured Pennsylvanians.
House Democrats have developed a three-fold plan that would:
A - Help hundreds of thousands of working Pennsylvanians gain
access to health insurance and lower the cost of health care for everyone.
B - Continue our commitment to helping doctors pay their medical
malpractice insurance premiums
C - Help small business employers who already offer their employees
health care
This plan, called Pennsylvania Access to Basic Care, or PA ABC would:
- Provide more than 270,000 uninsured working Pennsylvanians access
to basic health care.
- !mmediately provide affordable health insurance to the 80,000 Pennsylvanians
who are on the adultBasic waiting list.
- Make $42 million available for grants to small business employers
who have been doing the right thing all along by providing health care
coverage to their employees.
- Assist doctors by continuing to help them pay their medical malpractice
insurance premiums.
- Lower the cost of uncompensated care for hospitals, which costs
us $1.4 billion a year and adds hundreds of dollars to every insurance
premium.
- Lower the cost of care for all Pennsylvanians.
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