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We believe that health care coverage should be affordable, accessible, adequate, and understandable.

Our members and the people we represent power our work.

In 2017, our patient and consumer advocacy organizations began working together to advance our shared goals and the Partnership to Protect Coverage formed.
 

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PPC advocates for health reforms which meet the following basic elements of meaningful coverage.
 

1: Health Insurance Must be Affordable

Affordable plans ensure patients have equitable access to needed care in a timely manner from an experienced provider without undue financial burden. Affordable coverage includes reasonable premiums and cost sharing (such as deductibles, copays and coinsurance) and limits on out-of-pocket expenses. Adequate financial assistance must be available for people with low incomes and individuals with preexisting conditions should not be subject to increased premium costs based on their disease or health status.
 

2: Health Insurance Must be Accessible

All people, regardless of socioeconomic status, should be able to gain coverage without waiting periods through adequate open and special enrollment periods. Patient protections in current law should be retained, including prohibitions on preexisting condition exclusions, annual and lifetime limits, insurance policy rescissions, gender pricing and excessive premiums for older adults. Children should be allowed to remain on their parents’ health plans until age 26 and coverage through Medicare and Medicaid should not be jeopardized through excessive cost-shifting, funding cuts, or per capita caps or block granting.

 

3: Health Insurance Must be Adequate and Understandable

All plans should be required to cover a full range of needed health benefits with a comprehensive and stable network of providers and plan features. Guaranteed access to and prioritization of preventive services without cost-sharing should be preserved. Information regarding costs and coverage must be available, transparent, and understandable to the consumer in a culturally competent manner prior to purchasing the plan.”


To read our Consensus Healthcare Reform Principles, click here.
Latest Activity
04/02/2025

Statement on Behalf of Members of the Partnership to Protect Coverage to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee RE: Hearing on: “A Healthy Workforce: Expanding Access and Affordability in Employer-Sponsored Health Care"

Statement urging the House Committee on Education and the Workforce to reject bills which negatively impact the quality and affordability of healthcare for patients, including the Association Health Plans Act; the Telehealth Benefit Expansion for Workers Act; and the Self-Insurance Protection Act and, instead, partner with organizations like the 27 signers to identify opportunities to expand affordable, accessible, and adequate healthcare coverage for patients and their families.

04/01/2025

Patient Groups Urge Caution Around Disruptions to Critical Safety-Net Programs

Statement expressing deep concern that a call for rapid and large-scale reductions-in-force (RIFs) across government agencies, which is already underway in some divisions, has the potential to undermine program operations that are lifelines for the patients the organizations represent. Disruptions to social safety-net programs including Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and others, can have a devastating impact on patients with chronic illnesses who depend on these services to access specialized care, financial support, and other necessary resources. PPC urges the administration to consider the long-term impacts and lasting harm to patients that could come from implementation of these proposed changes.