Robert P. Casey Jr.
Health Care
Over the past five years, health insurance premiums for workers have grown by over 70 percent while the average family income has actually declined when adjusted for inflation.
Rising insurance premiums and rising costs for businesses have driven more than 700,000 Pennsylvanians out of the health insurance system. Those families are one accident, one illness away from financial ruin.
The number of challenges to improve the quality and affordability of health care in the United States are great. One of my top priorities is expanding children’s health insurance and reauthorizing the program.
Expanding coverage for children is not only the moral thing -- but also the wise thing --to do. Studies indicate that greater coverage of children can lead to significantly reduced rates of avoidable hospitalization. Moreover, children who are enrolled in SCHIP and other public programs register definite improvements in school performance.
As State Treasurer, I created the Hospital Enhancement Loan Program to enable hospitals to secure lower cost financing for critical facility and technology upgrades that will improve the quality of patient care throughout Pennsylvania.
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