If Gov. Corbett plans to build his legacy by dismantling the state’s social-safety net, then he’s off to a good start by tossing thousands of working poor Pennsylvanians off the health-insurance rolls this week.
That may pale in comparison to the expected cuts in state funding for schools and other social services yet to come with the governor’s first budget proposal. Even so, the collapse Monday of the state’s subsidized insurance program is an embarrassing failure for the new Republican administration.
For the nearly 41,000 working poor who can ill-afford to replace the low-cost coverage offered by the adultBasic program, the failure of Corbett and GOP legislative leaders to plug a funding gap could have dire, even life-threatening, consequences…
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