To ensure quality care for ourselves, our caregivers must have coverage.
A new PHI fact sheet outlines several ways that small businesses can receive government aid to help them take advantage of opportunities in the health reform law that passed earlier this year.
Health Reform Facts 3 is the latest in a series of PHI publications that describes how health reform provisions affect eldercare/disability employers and direct-care workers. Continue reading ‘Small Businesses Can Reap Health Reform Benefits’
The PCIP website provides state-by-state information
For many direct-care workers who have been unable to obtain health insurance due to pre-existing medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer, or a work-related injury, a new high-risk pool program is now available.
The program is called the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) and represents the first major coverage expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Continue reading ‘Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) Now Accepting Applications’
PHI’s Health Care for Health Care Workers campaign has released a fact sheet highlighting key health reform provisions related to investments in direct-care worker training and workforce development:
These investments include the creation of national advisory panels as well as grant opportunities for states and individual employers.
The following chart from the fact sheet summarizes the key opportunities available between now and when the law is fully implemented in 2014. Download the full fact sheet (pdf) for more information.
More information related to health reform and its impact on eldercare and disability services is available at the PHI Health Reform Resource Center.
As part of the health reform package (Pub.L. 111-148 and Pub.L. 111-152) signed by President Obama in March 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is creating a national Personal Care Attendants Workforce Advisory Panel.
Nominations for panel members are being accepted through Friday, June 18 (see below for nomination process). Continue reading ‘Health Care Reform: Personal Care Attendants Workforce Advisory Panel’
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