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YOU CAN HELP:
PIONEER MEMBERS: as more join and renew, you'll see coverage expand.
EMPLOYEE MEMBERS: your workers are covered while they work for you. When they leave, membership transfers to new hire.
HEALTH PROVIDERS (holisitic & allopathic): provide a discount to members.
We'll promote your services.
ENDORSEMENTS by organizations and individuals help us gain trust.
SEED MONEY: each $100 donation allows us to donate a membership and enlarge the payment plan. We'll sooner open our first free clinic.
SPEAKING INVITATIONS are sought:
(215) 805-8330
MEDIA are asked to contact us: [email protected]
PRO BONO LEGAL HELP needed.
STOREFRONT rent-free will help us coordinate volunteers and outreach.

PhilaHealthia is Philadelphia's health co-op.
The initial payment plan will be activated when 1,000 people have pledged to to pay the membership fee.

Members pay $100/YEAR to be covered for an ever-growing range of everyday emergencies. PhilaHealthia seeks to enroll Philadelphia's 140,000 un-insured, plus thousands more under-insured.

PROVEN PRACTICAL:
PhilaHealthia is based on the Ithaca Health Alliance (see Ithaca's progress as chart and their payment list). As in Ithaca, as more members join and renew, the variety and size of payments expands. See as CHART. Payments are made anywhere in the world, with any health provider. All payments and denials of payment are posted online. The Ithaca co-op has started a free clinic, and offers discounts with regional medical centers, doctors, dentists, and holistic healers.

AS MORE MEMBERS JOIN, PAYMENTS ENLARGE.
    Initial emergency coverage for 1,000 members will be:
$2,000 maximum for BROKEN BONES
$2,000 maximum for BURNS (3rd degree)
$1,000 maximum for EMERGENCY STITCHES
DISCOUNTS WITH PHILADELPHIA HEALERS
(FREE WEB PAGES for participating discount healers)
maximum total payments/member/year: $2,500

PLEDGE YOUR MEMBERSHIP:
send your name, address, phone:
[email protected] (215) 805-8330.
Copy the pledge flyer to show friends.

HEALTH DEMOCRACY: PhilaHealthia and the Ithaca Health Alliance have established co-op sector health coverage as an alternative to corporate insurance and declining federal/state coverage. We endorse universal health coverage and seek to promote, by our example, a health care system exemplifying efficiency, generosity and humanity.

We call this the Health Democracy movement. Mutual Health Organizations (MHOs) are held to higher standards than HMOs. Yet we are more than a health payment plan. Our members form a movement which addresses public health issues.

AFFILIATIONS: PhilaHealthia is a member of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) and affiliated with the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia.

LEGALITY: The Ithaca Health Alliance was approved to serve New York state residents after the NYS Insurance Dept received letters from members. It has been endorsed by Ithaca's Chamber of Commerce, Health Department, Cayuga Medical Center, Health Planning Council, state and local legislators.

PhilaHealthia likewise meets strict standards of transparency and democracy: and has been started by the Ithaca Health Alliance's founder.

Notwithstanding proven good service in New York state, Pennsylvania's Insurance Department ordered PhilaHealthia to cease and desist. Since we are uninsured, we cannot. We have sought meetings with regulators to gain approval as a pilot program. Here are samples of letters sent to the Pennsylvania Insurance Department.

Here is our article A Crime Not a Crisis: Why Pennsylvania Health Insurance Costs So Much.

Paul Glover is available to speak to groups. (215) 805-8330

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