PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Ending a yearlong negotiation, the Obama administration on Thursday approved Gov. Corbett’s alternative Medicaid expansion proposal, a step that could extend health-care benefits to roughly 600,000 uninsured Pennsylvanians.
In what was described as a five-year demonstration project, Pennsylvania got the go-ahead to use federal money to pay private insurers to provide health care to uninsured individuals – many in low-wage jobs…
Advocates hailed the approval, while one critic asserted that Pennsylvania will be the state offering the “stingiest” benefits… (more)
