From the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:
An affordable health-insurance program for low-income working people that was started by Gov. Tom Ridge and expanded under Gov. Rendell is projected to run out of money within weeks after Gov.-elect Corbett takes office, administration officials said.
Contractual obligations mean that insurance-termination notices may need to go to tens of thousands of subscribers in the program, known as adultBasic, even before the new governor is sworn in, if more than $50 million is not found before then, they said…
“I don’t think the new governor wants to come into office and the first thing to happen is to have 43,000 people lose their health insurance,” said Sharon Ward, director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, a nonpartisan but liberal-leaning group in Harrisburg…
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