11 members of the PA State House Democratic Policy Committee heard testimony today from people hoping that the state opts in on a planned expansion of Medicaid.
The expansion is part of President Obama's Affordable Care Act, and would cover 500,000 Pennsylvanians currently uninsured.
The Supreme Court decision that ruled the Affordable Care Act as constitutional allows individual states to decline the millions of dollars necessary to provide insurance to a state's uninsured.
Although 24 states will take the Medicaid expansion, 14 governors, including PA's Tom Corbett says it is a burden taxpayers can't afford.
The law funds the Medicaid expansion 100% for the first three years and 90% for the next seven years. The general thinking is that the government would require states to fund the program at some point which is causing some of the reluctance.
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