November 24, 2014
By Mary Wilson,
Disagreement over the changes to Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program providing health care for low-income Pennsylvanians have drawn attention to Gov. Tom Corbett and Gov.-elect Wolf.
Wolf favors full medicaid expansion to Pennsylvanians whose income is 138 percent of the federal poverity level, while the Corbett administration is going ahead its alternative with Healthy PA.
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Policy experts consider the plan to largely resemble a Medicaid expansion but for a few details that won’t take effect immediately. One controversial piece of the Healthy PA plan would set premiums for enrollees, but the payments wouldn’t kick in until 2016. Cuts to benefits for Medicaid recipients haven’t received federal approval.
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Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, said Medicaid enrollees could hope for a “smoother launch” if the Corbett and Wolf teams were being more “cooperative.” But, she added, “it won’t be hard” for Wolf to work with federal officials for a full Medicaid expansion after taking office.
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