The Governor Tom Corbett announced on Wednesday, Pennsylvania will not create his own health insurance exchange based on the modern health care act.
“I decided not to implement the state health insurance exchange at that time. It is not very functional that Pennsylvanian on a hook is an unknown amount of money for system handling in accordance with the regulations that were not fully written,” he said.
Pa. This is the 28th state that rejects federal funds to adopt a plan, a key element of the Act on inexpensive care, i.e. Obamacare.
The date of the decision on the plan is Friday, but Corbett said that too many details were still outstanding. He blamed the administration of President Obama, namely the Secretary for Health and Social Services Kathleen Sebelius.
“The reform of healthcare is too important to be achieved by accidental planning. Taxpayers and companies from Pennsylvania deserve more. They deserve to be conscious decision and a strong plan that responsibly uses taxpayers’ dollars,” he said.
He added that he is still looking for more details when he researches Medicaid proposed by Medicaid expansion.
The transfer opens the door for the federal government to set up its own version of the exchange for PA.
His movement caused the celebration of conservative activists who lobbyed against state exchange, noting that the accompanying federal funds would only be short-lived.
“Federal funds flow freely to buy state compliance, but the state budgets will receive in two short years. The Governor of Corbett showed real leadership in rejecting these temporary funds,” said Jennifer Stefan, director of the American state of Pennsylvania. “Creating a stock exchange puts state taxpayers on a hook for millions of dollars each year. States should reject this disgusted bureaucracy.”
AFP has actually announced support for Corbett’s decision before it was made public as Philadelphia Inquirer’s Amy Worden excellent.
Update: Conservatives are not the only celebrators. Liberal blogger Jon Geeting with Keystone Politics He wrote about messagespartly:
From the point of view of democrats, this is great news. This is probably a high watermark for republican control of the state government, and if they decided to design the provisions on insurance exchange, they could cause a lot of damage in the cause of universal healthcare. They could really crush the insurance market, they could adopt a really scanty, necessary package of benefits, they could write really needy principles of consumer protection, etc. Now HHS Obama will be responsible for all these details, and Pennsylvania will have access to the well -developed insurance exchange Obama and intended democrats.
