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Pennsylvania sued for axing low-income health plan - 3/16/2011 12:24:20 PM

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-pennsylvania-health-idUSTRE72E8UM20110316 for the full story

Pennsylvania's governor and other state politicians have been sued in a class action suit after 41,000 residents lost health coverage following the state's axing of an insurance program for low-income workers.

As a result, the health plan, adultBasic Insurance, closed because no other funding provision was made. This left the people who were enrolled in the lurch along with 500,000 other individuals who were waiting to be covered,

Corbett's office had no immediate comment on a story published Tuesday by the Post-Gazette that said the governor wanted to use $220 million of the $2 billion a year the state gets from the tobacco money for economic development.

Bless the repubs for cutting what is needed more than dig in other places just to line the corporations pockets even more.
heart warming isnt it?

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RE: Pennsylvania sued for axing low-income health plan - 3/16/2011 12:32:38 PM

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RE: Pennsylvania sued for axing low-income health plan - 3/16/2011 1:09:34 PM

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Two billion a year for economic development ? I can't laugh because it is too funny. Who's economic development ? People who go bar hopping with the governor or what ? There's no economic development for the rest of us.

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RE: Pennsylvania sued for axing low-income health plan - 3/16/2011 1:10:58 PM

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Heh truer words never spoken dear Termy

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RE: Pennsylvania sued for axing low-income health plan - 3/16/2011 2:36:12 PM

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If the law is really this vague: "the tobacco monies would be used to make Pennsylvanians healthier and to fund the health of future generations of Pennsylvanians.", they have no shot.

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RE: Pennsylvania sued for axing low-income health plan - 3/16/2011 2:51:30 PM

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I agree with you, god help me

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