Corbett says he’ll meet with Sebelius on Medicaid

PHILLY.COM / AP: Gov. Tom Corbett said Wednesday that he and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have agreed to meet to discuss issues surrounding an expansion of Medicaid that would potentially extend taxpayer-paid health care coverage to hundreds of thousands of low-income Pennsylvanians…

Corbett said he is still concerned about the cost of an expansion for Pennsylvania, and that the federal government cannot always be trusted to deliver on its funding promises to states…

“Each state has to look at it as to what it means and what they already provide,” Corbett said. “For instance, a lot of states don’t have what we have here in Pennsylvania with our (Children’s Health Insurance) Program.” … (more)

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