“(Shippensburg, PA) — Speaking to a packed house of supporters at the Shippensburg Fire House last evening Ryan Sanders praised the Geisinger Health Plan for no long excluding coverage for pre-existing health conditions.
Sanders held up a letter his own small business received from the health care corporation and said, ‘it has taken years to come to this point where we can get guaranteed health care coverage without ‘pre-existing’ conditions — years — and you did that!’
He told the overflow audience that they organized, worked hard and voted for the change and that change is happening. ‘Geisinger is just one example,’ he said. ‘They started their new program June 1 this year, but they didn’t have to eliminate pre-existing conditions by law until 2014. Geisinger chose to lead, they chose to do it now, There will be no more horror stories of the uninsured dying alone and that’s happening because you voted to make it happen.’
Sanders said nine of 10 small businesses with fewer than 25 employees in Adams, Cumberland, and York counties will be eligible for tax credits this year under the new health-care reform law and nearly one in four will qualify for the maximum 35 percent credit. ‘My opponent, Todd Platts, wants to hurt the small businesses in our district by trashing health care reform and starting all over again,’ he said….
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