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So, among the reasons why this town is seriously awesome, is our citizenry’s ability to take care of ourselves. We are seriously a city of go-getters! To make driving a car in the city cheaper and more sustainable, someone developed Philly Car Share. To make bikes more affordable and easier to maintain, we came up with Bike Church. And now, with so many of us uninsured, Paul Glover is taking some serious initiative to get us covered with his new program, PhilaHealthia.

Personally, I haven’t worked a job with benefits in more than five years, and as an avid cyclist, I’ve been hit by cars six times! Call it luck or call it great skill in falling, but I’ve emerged from each accident relatively unscathed. Just the same, I’m surely not invincible, and constantly aware that the next crash might land me drowning in debt in a hospital bed. But thanks to PhilaHealthia, I may soon have affordable coverage through a local co-op model that’s already succeeded elsewhere. My list of reasons to live here just continues to grow!

Read more at: http://www.healthdemocracy.org/philahealthia.html