PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Editorial: ….[Gov. Tom] Corbett’s track record on social programs offers little reason for optimism. Since its first month in power, the Corbett administration has busied itself with discussions of ideas to close widening gaps in health coverage and cash aid for the state’s neediest, including 93,000 children who have been tossed off the rolls of both the joint state-federal Children’s Health Insurance Program and Medicaid.
Earlier, Corbett was a spirited combatant in failed, Republican-led efforts nationally to scuttle Obamacare – a rear-guard campaign still firing passions among tea-party faithful. At least, that long, twisted road led Corbett to the right place, with his declaration Monday that he’s finally ready to propose terms under which the state would accept Obama-care funds earmarked for expanding Medicaid to thousands of people, many in jobs that don’t offer affordable health plans.
But apparently fearing what Grover Norquist and his Club for Growth buddies would think, Corbett wants current Medicaid recipients to pay a modest monthly premium, which is now barred by law, and fulfill a work-search requirement, which no other state has linked to health-care coverage… (more)
