Healthcare Legislative Committee

The Chamber's Healthcare Committee’s objective is to educate and assist Chamber members to control healthcare costs while maintaining exceptional healthcare quality for employees by making an impact on these factors: personal accountability, transparency, tort reform, consumerism and promotion of free-market policies promoting competition in healthcare.

Strategy: Serve Chamber members by providing legislators with the business community’s ideas and concepts and proactively affect the legislative process to enact policies that support lower costs while maintaining high quality healthcare.

Action Plan: Advocate pro-business positions on healthcare issues; develop and implement strategies to support these positions; and educate and engage members, policy makers and the community at large on the impact of healthcare issues.
 
For more information, email Michelle Griffin Young.

• Letters from the Chairman 
• Healthcare Legislative Committee Policy
• Pharmacy Access Law: A message from the Pennsylvania Department of State (2/20/13)
• 2012 Healthcare Summit
• Healthcare Implementation Timeline
• Aftermath: New Realities for Businesses in the Wake of the Healthcare Law 

Small Business Tax Calculator-Health Care Reform: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) includes a provision for a small employer tax credit designed to encourage small employers to offer health insurance coverage for the first time or to maintain existing coverage for their employees. Capital BlueCross has developed a tax calculator tool to help our small groups identify their potential tax credit.

2012-2013 Board

Tom Huntzinger - Chairman
Emerson, Reid & Company
717-495-1380

Anne Baum
Capital BlueCross
610-807-9090

Dennis Boyne
PC Mentor
484-544-4123

Selicia Chronister
Valley Preferred
610-969-0202

John Kintzer 
M&T Bank
610-401-1100

Todd Linn 
Hampson Mower Kreitz
610-868-8507

Tom Rooney 
Express Personnel Services
610-264-4080

Susan Sartoretto 
Abington Manor
610-829-0100

Gale Schmidt-Hodavance 
Jangle Advertising
610-365-8383 Ext.306

Peter Schweyer
Sacred Heart Healthcare System