The following tables provide a side-by-side comparison of the Affordability Provisions contained in the U.S. House and Senate health care reform bills, based on a family of three.

Georgeanne Koehler championed her own campaign in an effort to ensure that those who died due to lack of coverage are not overlooked. In early December she set out to make sure the world, or at least those in Washington, knew Billy and his story. In doing so, she continued to inspire countless people and organizations including the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (PHAN) which pledged to help her gather 1,000 holiday cards for her campaign.We are proud to report thousands of you logged...

On Thursday, December 17, Georgeanne Koehler will travel from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C. with hundreds of holiday "health reform" cards and messages for members of Congress and an empty chair in memory of her brother who died from lack of health insurance.

PHAN partnered with HCAN and Move on yesterday to hold candlelight vigils accross the state. Check out the news coverage of several of those events bellow.

Vigil sends message on health care reform
By Rick Dandes
The Daily Item
December 8, 2009
http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_342230056.html

As Congress debates health care reform, a new report from the Pennsylvania Health Law Project offers a glimpse into the personal struggles of eight Pennsylvanians who have little or no health insurance coverage.

On Saturday, the U.S. Senate voted 60-39 to begin debate on health care reform legislation after the Thanksgiving holiday break. The vote came only a few days after an Associated Press poll found that a majority of Americans favor a public insurance plan.

Pennsylvania has outstripped every state in the nation except Michigan in the loss of employment-based health insurance coverage over the course of the decade, according to a new report analyzing U.S. Census Bureau data.

In 2007 and 2008, 694,471 fewer Pennsylvanians were insured by an employer policy than in 2000-01.  The nation as a whole also saw a dramatic decline in coverage, with 17 million fewer Americans insured by an employer policy in 2008 than at the start of the...