Debate over health-care law rolls into Pa. Capitol
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The debate over the federal health-care law came to Pennsylvania’s Capitol on the law’s first anniversary.
Gov. Tom Corbett registered a number of complaints today about the law to a committee of two Republican U.S. House members from Pennsylvania. For one, Corbett says the law’s requirement for people to buy health insurance or pay a penalty isn’t constitutional.
He’s also warning the law would impose higher costs on taxpayers as a result of its expansion of Medicaid eligibility beginning in 2014.
Just down the hall, a demonstration by advocates for the poor in defense of the federal law brought out people who lost their health care coverage when the Corbett administration ended a state-funded health-care plan for lower-income adults.