Corbett Relents On Medicaid Expansion in PA

In huge healthcare news, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has relented on expanding Medicaid to cover more poor Pennsylvanians under Medicaid, the Huffington Post reports: "Federal regulators accepted a modified proposal from Gov. Tom Corbett (R) that will offer an estimated 500,000 low-income individuals subsidies to purchase private insurance. The plan allows some low-income individuals to be charged premiums for coverage, and permits the number of available benefit plans to be reduced from 14 to two -- a 'high-risk' option and 'low-risk' options -- according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette." This makes Pennsylvania the ninth state run by a Republican governor to accept the Medicaid expansion.