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PA Health Law Project Toll-Free Helpline - Call: 1-800-274-3258
The PA Health Law Project provides free legal services and advocacy to Pennsylvanians having trouble accessing publicly funded health care coverage or services. For assistance, call the PHLP Helpline at 1-800-274-3258 or 1-866-236-6310 TTY or e-mail the PHLP at staff@phlp.org. Information from the PHLP is also available online at www.phlp.org. Read More
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HealthCare.gov
HealthCare.gov is a federal government Website managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services where you can get information on health care options that are available and sign up for health care benefits. Content Detail
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Are you eligible to use the Marketplace?
Information from HealthCare.gov about the requirements you must meet to be eligible to enroll in health insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace. Content Detail
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Health Insurance Marketplace - Healthcare.gov
The new Health Insurance Marketplace helps uninsured people find health coverage. When you fill out the Marketplace application you will be told if you qualify for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) or for a private health insurance plan. You will be able to compare your options and enroll in a plan right from this site. Content Detail
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Health Insurance Marketplace Calculator
This tool from the Kaiser Family Foundation illustrates health insurance premiums and subsidies for people purchasing insurance on their own in new health insurance exchanges (or “Marketplaces”) created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Read More
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Health Reform Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Health Care Reform, obtaining health care and the Health Care Marketplace are provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Content Detail
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Questions About Obamacare?
This short Q & A from Community Legal Services of Philadelphia answers some basic questions about the new rules involving health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). [PDF] Content Detail
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The Affordable Care Act's New Patient's Bill of Rights
Information from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the new Patient's Bill of Rights under the Affordable Care Act which will help children (and eventually all Americans) with pre-existing conditions gain coverage and keep it, protect all American's choice of doctors, and end lifetime limits on the care consumers may receive. These new protections apply to nearly all health insurance plans Content Detail
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Understanding Health Insurance Terms
This glossary from HealthCare.gov explains many of the terms you hear when reading about or discussing health care coverage. Content Detail
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Continuation of Health Coverage - COBRA
Information from the United States Department of Labor about the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), a federal program that provides the right to continued health care coverage for people who lose their benefits under certain circumstances. Content Detail
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Employee Benefits Security Administration
Website of the Employee Benefits Security Administration. The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is committed to educating and assisting the 149 million workers, retirees and their families covered by approximately 685,000 private retirement plans, 2.2 million health plans, and similar numbers of other welfare benefit plans holding approximately $9.3 trillion in assets; as well as plan sponsors and members of the employee benefits community. Content Detail
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Employee Retirement Income Security Act - ERISA
The United States Department of Labor provides this introduction to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), which is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established pension and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans. Content Detail
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Health Benefits Advisor
The Health Benefits Advisor from the United States Department of Labor is designed to help workers and their families better understand employer and employee organization (such as a union) provided group health benefits and the laws that govern them, especially when they experience changes in their life and work situations--such as marriage, childbirth, job loss or retirement. Content Detail
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Health Plans & Benefits
Information on group health plans, which are employee welfare benefit plans established or maintained by an employer or by an employee organization (such as a union), or both, that provides medical care for participants or their dependents directly or through insurance, reimbursement, or otherwise. Content Detail
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Portability of Health Coverage (HIPAA)
Information from the United States Department of Labor on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This law provides rights and protections for participants and beneficiaries in group health plans. It includes protections for coverage under group health plans that limit exclusions for preexisting conditions; prohibit discrimination against employees and dependents based on their health status; and allow a special opportunity to enroll in a new plan to individuals in certain circumstances. HIPAA may also give you a right to purchase individual coverage if you have no group health plan coverage available, and have exhausted COBRA or other continuation coverage. Content Detail