THE REPORTER / AP: The Corbett administration’s plan to expand subsidized health care coverage for low-income people includes premiums and job-search requirements that would serve as potential barriers to enrollment, the Pennsylvania chapter of the AARP said Thursday.
Representatives of hospitals, doctors, disabled people, pharmacists and other interest groups raised a variety of problems and concerns — sprinkled with a few compliments — before a panel of Department of Public Welfare officials led by Secretary Beverly Mackereth.
Some witnesses renewed criticism of Gov. Tom Corbett for refusing to broaden the state’s Medicaid eligibility guidelines to cover more low-income adults as of Jan. 1 — like 24 other states and the District of Columbia — despite President Barack Obama’s pledge that the federal government would cover most of the cost… (more)
