Corbett Has No Excuses Left on Medicaid Expansion
As if things couldn’t get worse for Pennsylvania’s governor, an independent report was released this week showing his administration’s stubborn rejection of Medicaid funds to lock the rings of Obamacare in place in the commonwealth is, probably, the wrong one. The report was released by the Republican-controlled state Legislature’s Fiscal Office. It noted...
Continue ReadingPennsylvania Poll Trolls Release ‘Obamacare’ Survey
Last we heard from GOP-aligned Susquehanna Polling and Research, it was October 2012, the sky was falling on Obama, and Dick Morris’ claim that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would win the election in a “landslide” was looking more likely to those whose attention was focused on Fox News and the conservative echo chamber. See, the Harrisburg-based...
Continue ReadingWhy You Should Worry About Corbett’s Medicaid Rejection
After months of dodging questions with regard to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion — which would add about 500,000 Pennsylvanians onto the state Medicaid health care program for the poor — Gov. Corbett finally announced his decision in his 2013-2014 budget address yesterday. The answer: a big, fat no. “Washington needs...
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Health Care Advocates and Politicians Discuss Obamacare Savings in Philly
On Thursday afternoon, State Senator Vincent Hughes (D-Philadelphia) held a roundtable discussion on the potential benefits of expanding Medicaid in Pennsylvania. He was joined by a who’s-who of health-care and policy types from around the state, including the Senate Democratic Appropriations Committee, Philadelphia Health Commissioner Donald Schwarz, Sharon...
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Here’s What Gov. Corbett’s Health-Care Rejection Means
Gov. Corbett issued a seething statement regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act yesterday, as he rejected a state-run insurance exchange. In his rejection letter, he noted that the federal government continuously dismissed his administration’s questions and that Health and Human Services secretary Katherine Sebelius admitted the laws...
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Time for Gov. Corbett to Figure Out the Health-Care Exchange
"Decisions, decisions..." The election is over and it’s time, again, to worry about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Specifically, what our lawsuit-filing governor (and former attorney general) cares to do about the issue. Because like it or not, although the deadline has been extended, President Obama’s re-election combined with...
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Why Refusing Medicaid Expansion Could Kill Pennsylvania’s Hospitals
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" As Pennsylvanians gear up for Gov. Corbett’s decision on whether to accept the federal government’s Medicaid expansion (a state-optional portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to the Supreme Court’s ruling) in Pennsylvania, it would help to understand that without that expansion, Pennsylvania...
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Sen. Pat Toomey & Others Urge Denying Medicaid Expansion
The U.S. House of Representatives will vote later today on repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act but before they do so, Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey would like you to know that the law has been “discredited;” everyone hates it; and, by the way: Don’t you dare implement the Medicaid expansion, governors. “The Supreme Court has ruled...
Continue ReadingWill Corbett Accept Medicaid Expansion Money? [UPDATED]
Opponents of health care reform did get one win in last week’s Supreme Court decision to uphold most of the law: Medicaid expansion will be left up to the states. And now, throughout the country, Republican governors are going on record saying they do not support the provision and will refuse the federal money to expand their states’ program. So, what’s...
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In Blow to Gov. Tom Corbett, Health Care Law Upheld [UPDATED]
"Damn it. I'll get you, Obamacare!" Shortly after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, several states’ attorneys general jumped on a lawsuit challenging the law’s constitutionality. Then-Pennsylvania Attorney General, now-Governor Tom Corbett was one of them, joining the federal lawsuit on March 23,...
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