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Pennsylvania launches Medicaid expansion:
governor
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[February 10, 2015]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The state of
Pennsylvania has launched an expansion of the Medicaid health insurance
program, governor Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said in a statement on Monday.
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 "Today is the first step toward simplifying a complicated process
and ensuring hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians have greater
access to the health insurance they need," said Wolf, who ousted
Republican Governor Tom Corbett in November's election.
The plan replaces Corbett's Healthy PA initiative, according to the
statement. Healthy PA was announced in August to use federal funds
to pay for private health insurance coverage for up to 600,000
residents.
Corbett had been one of a number of Republican governors who found
ways to accept money under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care
Act, despite political opposition that has so far prevented a number
of U.S. states from moving forward with the Medicaid expansion plan.
States run Medicaid, which serves families who have low incomes, and
receive partial reimbursements from the federal government. The
healthcare overhaul known as Obamacare allowed more people to enroll
in Medicaid and also gave states 90 percent to 100 percent
reimbursements for new enrollees.
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(Reporting by Hilary Russ and Megan Davies; writing by Megan Davies;
Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Andrew Hay)
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