PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Editorial: With a $27 billion state budget, Pennsylvania should be able to spend less than 1 percent of that amount to make sure 600,000 of its most vulnerable citizens have their basic health-care needs met…
Pennsylvania’s higher Medicaid tab wouldn’t come due until late in the second term that Gov. Corbett clearly intends to seek. Even so, the governor last week said he didn’t think the state could afford the additional $178 million. That shortsighted view is in keeping with his unworkable no-tax pledge to tea-party elements of the Republican Party.
At least Corbett stopped short of saying he’d refuse the option of increasing the Medicaid rolls. Despite his opposition to what he and other GOP critics call Obamacare, Corbett should put the interests of the state’s nearly 1 million uninsured citizens first… (more)
