PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE / AP: A Republican state lawmaker on Friday publicly urged Gov. Tom Corbett to support an expansion of Medicaid eligibility, a sign that Corbett may be facing a split in his party as several other GOP governors of heavily populated states embrace the expansion.
House Human Services Committee Chairman Gene DiGirolamo said in a statement that rejecting an offer of increased federal funding to expand Medicaid threatens hospital finances and ensures many low-income Pennsylvanians will miss out on primary health care…
Republican governors of three other heavily populated states, Florida, Michigan and Ohio, say they’re going along with the expansion that begins in 2014… (more)
