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Cover the Commonwealth with Medicaid Expansion

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Sandy Strauss

From Project H.O.M.E. (http://www.projecthome.org): Right now, Pennsylvania has a historic opportunity to offer 800,000 Pennsylvanians health insurance through Medicaid Expansion. This will provide peace of mind for thousands of low-income families and individuals, AND create hundreds of jobs, save the … Continue reading →

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Number of Uninsured Up Another Million

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

Posted at http://www.healthcare-now.org/number-of-uninsured-up-another-million/   September 16, 2011   By John Gever for MedPage Today –   A record 49.9 million Americans were without health insurance during 2010, up almost 2% from the 49.0 million uninsured in 2009, the Census Bureau … Continue reading →

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Coalition on Human Needs Declares the Recession is Not Over for a Record-Breaking 46.2 Million Poor Americans

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org):   In the aftermath of the Census poverty data release, check out CHN’s Poverty Day 2011 page (http://www.chn.org/issues/statistics/povertyday2011.html) for analyses from many organizations and other resources.   More than 100 Million are Poor … Continue reading →

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For Record Number of Americans, Recession Is Far From Over

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org):   National poverty rate hit 15.1% last year, the highest level since 1993   As the recession took its toll last year, more Americans fell into poverty, saw their incomes decline and … Continue reading →

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Is Poverty a Death Sentence?

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

By Senator Bernie Sanders Posted: 9/13/11 03:39 PM ET   The crisis of poverty in America is one of the great moral and economic issues facing our country. It is very rarely talked about in the mainstream media. It gets … Continue reading →

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Census Survey Shows Troubling Trends in Health Care

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From Families USA (http://www.familiesusa.org):   Earlier this week, the Census Bureau released its annual Current Population Survey. The Census Bureau data on health insurance reflects three negative trends: The number of American workers with job-based health coverage has declined to … Continue reading →

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Urge Super Committee Member Senator Toomey and the PA Congressional Delegation to Protect Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From Families USA (http://www.familiesusa.org):   The debt ceiling agreement reached in early August established a 12-member “super committee” charged with finding $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction by November 23. The first organizational meeting of the super committee was held on … Continue reading →

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Healthcare Navigator/Organizer—Philadelphia Unemployment Project (hiring immediately)

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From the Philadelphia Unemployment Project (http://www.philaup.org/):   Healthcare Navigator/Organizer: Description   The Philadelphia Unemployment Project has a long history of advocating for access to health care for the uninsured.  We are currently hiring for a Health Care Navigator/Organizer to assist … Continue reading →

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adultBasic in Pennsylvania is About to End—Sign Petition to Save It

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org):   You have to see this video.  It’s about Roseanne, a mother of two who lives in Perkasie, Pennsylvania.  At one point Roseanne says she’d rather die than become a burden to her … Continue reading →

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Health Care in the News and on the Web

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Sandy Strauss

From Faithful Reform in Health Care (http://www.faithfulreform.org):   The 2007 – 2009 Recession And Health Insurance Coverage:  A new study, published Dec. 6th, in the journal Health Affairs, “examines changes in health insurance coverage over the last decade, with a … Continue reading →

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