Pa. Medicaid plan panned by health care advocates

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MARC LEVY, The Associated Press
Last updated: Friday, December 6, 2013, 4:23 PM


HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Health care advocates who began reading Gov. Tom Corbett's detailed proposal Friday to bring billions of federal health care dollars to Pennsylvania criticized it as unnecessarily punitive toward potential enrollees and laden with red tape.

On top of that, the proposal that Corbett calls fiscally responsible also contains a long list of requests for the federal government to waive rules that would otherwise apply to the health care coverage that a state Medicaid program must provide.

"I read a lot of waivers and I have never seen such a long list of waiver requests," said Joan Alker, the executive director of Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families in Washington, D.C.

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1. Is this Corbett's way of being able to say

"well, I tried to work with the president, and he just will not compromise"?