SCRANTON TIMES-LEADER Editorial: One of the Corbett administration’s first acts upon taking office in 2011 was to dismantle adultBasic. The health insurance program used a combination of money from the tobacco settlement fund and contributions from tax-exempt Blue Cross health insurers to provide low-cost basic coverage, mostly for low-income workers who earned too much to qualify for Medicaid but could not afford market-rate private coverage.
Very few of the 42,000 people who lost coverage were able to replace it with the higher-cost, lower coverage options that insurers offered as replacements for adultBasic.
Now the administration has discovered that neglect works as well as activism in shredding aspects of the health coverage safety net… (more)
