PHI is working on three fronts to influence the shape of national health care reform:

1. Promoting coverage provisions that ensure that direct-care workers will have access to affordable, accessible coverage—and that eldercare/disability services employers are supported to provide such coverage.
2. Ensuring that health care reform includes significant investment in direct-care jobs to prepare America to care for growing numbers of elders and people with disabilities.
3. Encouraging Congress to leverage the direct-care workforce as an integral part of new models of care aimed at promoting wellness, managing chronic conditions and preventing hospital readmissions in order to improve quality and control health care costs.

Click image to download a side-by-side chart (pdf) comparing House and Senate health reform provisions.

Supporting Resources

Coverage

• PHI’s Health Care for Health Care Workers campaign
• PICO’s Comparison of Health Care Status Quo with Senate and House Health Reform Bills (pdf)
• DCW health insurance coverage recommendations (pdf)
• A Health Care System That’s Good for Direct-Care Workers Is Good for America (pdf)
• PHI fact sheet on key issues in national health reform (pdf)
• Preparing America to Care: Health Care Reform Must Strengthen Eldercare Services (pdf)

Workforce Investment

• PHI fact sheet on key issues in national health reform (pdf)
• Workforce investment recommendations (pdf)
• Direct-Care Worker Provisions at a Glance (pdf)