Corbett’s New Budget Shortchanges PA
On Thursday, July 10, 2014, Governor Corbett signed a $29.1 billion state budget that demonstrates yet another example of his failed leadership abilities. Not only does his budget not repair …
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Corbett Administration Drops Healthy PA’s Work Search Requirement
PRESS RELEASE – Thursday, March 6, 2014 Contact: Amelia Abromaitis; Amelia.Abromaitis@seiuhcpa.org / 215.219.4248  SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania’s President Neal Bisno: The Corbett Administration Needs to Go One Step Further and Eliminate all Barriers …
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Grieving Fiance Asks Governor Corbett, “How Many More People Have to Die Before Fixing the Problem?”
Outside the doors to a $1,000 a plate Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Governor Corbett met with Scot Rosenzweig, a man from Allentown whose uninsured fiancé recently passed away from untreated …
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Home Care Workers and Consumers Describe the Real Impact of Governor Corbett’s Outsourcing of their Fiscal Management System to PPL
HARRISBURG — Following Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale’s recently released audit of the Corbett Administration’s inept handling of the Public Partnerships, LLC (PPL) contract, Pennsylvania home care attendants, consumers and …
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State Budget Stops the Bleeding, but Pennsylvania is Still in Critical Condition
Two years of drastic budget cuts have left many essential public services in a critical state, but because of the action of our members and a wide range of other …
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PA Supreme Court Halts Closure of State Health Centers
In a victory for our union and Pennsylvania’s public health, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has granted a temporary injunction that will prevent the Corbett Administration from continuing to close 26 …
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SEIU Healthcare PA Members Join Hundreds in the Capitol to Call for Medicaid Expansion
Expanding the Medicaid program in Pennsylvania would mean billions of dollars in federal funds for the state, the over 40,000 new jobs and healthcare coverage for some 700,000 uninsured Pennsylvanians.
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Corbett Administration Delivers Department of Health Furlough Notices Despite Widespread Objections and Pending Lawsuit
Beginning Thursday, May 23, 2013, nine community health nurses received furlough notices from the Corbett Administration despite objections from state legislators and public health advocates, as well as a pending …
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Commonwealth Court Denies Injunction to Halt Closings of State Health Centers and Furloughing of Community Health Nurses
In a decision issued today, Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court denied preliminary injunction sought by SEIU Healthcare PA, DOH nurses from Carbon, Beaver, Snyder and the Southeast District, Senators Timothy Solobay, John …
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Governor Corbett Needs to Accept Medicaid Expansion Today
Together with our allies in the Cover the Commonwealth coalition, SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania has been active statewide leading the fight for Medicaid expansion.
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