From the PATRIOT-NEWS:
It should be no surprise looking at what shape our economy is in that a growing number of people have no health insurance. That is why 40,000 Pennsylvanians right now are getting insurance through a state-run program called adultBasic.
In a few weeks, adultBasic, which was created in 2001 under former Gov. Tom Ridge, will end. Gov. Tom Corbett plans to offer working poor adults a program called Special Care, which has fewer coverage options and would be administered by the state’s BlueCross and Blue Shield providers at a cost of about $140 a month. The issue for many is that the adultBasic program costs only $36 a month. …
The bottom line is working poor residents need some program to bridge the gap from now to 2014 when health care reform kicks in to provide coverage for the uninsured in the United States…
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