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Website Outlines the Health Care Coverage Crisis in Direct Care
February 27, 2006

A new website for the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute's Health Care for Health Care Workers (HCHCW) initiative houses information about the widespread lack of health care coverage among direct-care workers in long-term care. ''There is a particular irony in the low rate of coverage among direct-care workers,'' it notes. ''These workers provide essential health care and personal care to vulnerable elders and others living with disabilities and long-term illnesses, yet more than a third have no health insurance for themselves or their families.''

Sections include:

• The Health Insurance Crisis. This describes the crisis and outlines possible solutions.
  
• Resources. This houses descriptions of and links to organizations working to address the crisis, as well as publications that address the problem or describe local initiatives to expand coverage.
  
• HCHCW Campaigns. This describes efforts being made by HCHCW and its partners in three states ? Maine, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
  
• Related Initiatives. This describes campaigns initiated by other groups, employers, or state governments to expand health care coverage.
  
• Telling Our Stories. This includes testimonials by direct-care workers, consumers, and employers about how the lack of affordable health insurance for workers has affected them.
  
• Newsroom. This provides a quick overview for the media of HCHCW.

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