Health Insurance Coverage for the Poor – Pennsylvania

Lawyers say thousands wrongly lost Medicaid, By Marc Levy (AP), March 7, 2013, Philadelphia Inquirer: “The number of eligible people who were purged from Pennsylvania’s Medicaid rolls amid Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration crackdown aimed at welfare waste is possibly many thousands higher than state officials told lawmakers earlier this week, Philadelphia-based lawyers for the poor told The Associated Press on Thursday…”
Pa. court: Reinstate health-care funding for the poor, By Amy Worden, March 7, 2013, Philadelphia Inquirer: “A state judge has ordered the Corbett administration to reinstate funding for programs that provided health insurance to tens of thousands of low-income Pennsylvanians. In his ruling Tuesday, Commonwealth Court President Judge Dan Pellegrini found that two statutes that stripped money from the adultBasic and Medicaid programs were unconstitutional because they diverted money from the federal tobacco settlement to finance items other than health care in the general budget…”