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The Fishing Partnership Health Plan (FPHP) provides access
to high quality, affordable health care coverage for commercial fishermen
and their family members.
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The Fishing Partnership Health Plan is a model for covering the working uninsured:
Eighty percent of uninsured Americans are from working families.
The health care system is failing these families, and we are all paying for this breakdown. The uninsured "pay" with
their lives. According to the Institute of Medicine, lack of health insurance causes 18,000 unnecessary deaths each year
in the United States. And, the nation "pays" through lost productivity, cost shifting, higher taxes, etc. The Institute of Medicine
estimates that the high rate of uninsured Americans costs the United States $65 to $130 billion each year. |
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The Fishing Partnership Health Plan works:
The Fishing Partnership Health Plan has been providing access
to health care coverage to thousands of fishermen and their family members since 1997. The FPHP reduced the rate of uninsured fishermen
from 43% to 13%. In addition, the FPHP saved $4.15 for every dollar of federal funding spent. The Fishing Partnership Health Plan
saves lives and saves money. |
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Do you need health care coverage?
Are you a fisherman in Massachusetts? If so, please call the Massachusetts
Fishermen's Partnership at 1-888-282-8816. Are you a fisherman from another state? If so, the Fishing Partnership Health Plan would like to work with you, your Congressional Representative, and your Governor to help you get health care coverage. Please click here for more information. Or, do you work outside of the fishing industry? We would be very interested in hearing from you, as well. Please click here to send us an email. |
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