SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE Editorial: …The Department of Health and Human Services last week accepted Gov. Tom Corbett’s plan to use federal money to pay private companies to provide health coverage to uninsured people. Many work in low-paying jobs and about 600,000 Pennsylvanians could benefit from the expansion, which is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1…
Mr. Corbett refused to expand Medicaid initially as part of nearly universal Republican opposition to the Affordable Care Act…
Mr. Corbett has never been a proponent of publicly subsidized health insurance for the needy. After taking office in 2011, his first act as governor was to eliminate AdultBasic, a state-sponsored, bare-bones health insurance vehicle for the working poor… (more)
