PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: Pennsylvania missed out on $2.5 billion in federal money and 7,900 jobs by not expanding its Medicaid program this year under the Affordable Care Act, according to a report issued Wednesday by the White House.
The state would be in line to receive $5.8 billion in 2015 and 2016 if it chooses to take federal money to enlarge eligibility of the health insurance program for the poor, according to President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. The expansion would generate 26,800 jobs during the same period, the council’s report said.
Pennsylvania is one of 24 states that didn’t expand the program. But Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican who opposed Obama’s health care overhaul, has asked the Obama administration for permission to use federal money for private insurance as an alternative to expansion… (more)
