AFP-PA’s state director Jennifer Stefano has been appearing on television and radio over the past few days to discuss why Americans should be concerned with this issue: in the President’s healthcare law he empowered the very organization that has now been going out against his political opposition, with broad policing powers over the nation’s healthcare. [...]
By: Nicole Kaeding Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine released a new study with dramatic ramifications on the current Medicaid expansion debate. The study measured the effects of expanding Medicaid to 10,000 individuals in Oregon, and showed that expanded access has no “significant improvement in measured physical health outcomes.” As states grapple with [...]
Governor Tom Corbett in his recently submitted FY 2013-14 budget recommended to the state legislature that Pennsylvania not expand the Medicaid program beyond the nearly 20 percent of the population already covered. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Obamacare, mandated the expansion to include all individuals below 133 percent of the federal poverty [...]
Speaking of Medicaid expansion, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jake Corman, R-Centre, says Gov. Tom Corbett “has left the door open to it.” Sen. Pat Vance, R-Cumberland, says the key will be getting sufficient “concessions” from the federal government, “as other states have done, but ones that fit Pennsylvania’s needs, as other states have fitted the [...]
The Governor’s office emailed this letter out to constituents who had contacted his office about the healthcare exchanges and Medicaid expansion under the ACA. We thank Governor Corbett for his stance on both issues. “Dear Friend: Thank you for contacting my office to express your concerns regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), [...]
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