Corbett's Insurance Exchange Decision Leaves Medicaid Fate Unknown
Gov. Tom Corbett told the federal government Wednesday, Dec. 12 that the commonwealth of Pennsylvania would not run its own health insurance exchange.
By Melissa Daniels | PA Independent HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Corbett has changed his mind. Pennsylvania, Corbett had said, wasn’t ready to decide about running a health-insurance exchange because information from the federal government proved insufficient. Wednesday, two days before the deadline to decide, Pennsylvania became the 28th state to allow the federal government take over the process. “Pennsylvanians have waited long enough for answers, and continuing this environment of uncertainty harms Pennsylvania businesses and consumers who are attempting to prepare for the changes created by the ACA,” Corbett wrote in a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. It’s the latest turn in Pennsylvania’s …
Frightwingslayer
10:32 am on Monday, December 17, 2012
Corbett's too busy cutting education, human services, and drilling for gas to worry about health care for Pennsylvanians. If he turns away the Medicare money many unemployed and low wage Pa. workers will have no health care..The people who are the poorest of the poor are getting free health care as usual. The Medicare expansion under Obamacare was set up to help low wage earners and those … more ›