The plan replaces former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s (R) Healthy PA initiative, according to a statement from Gov. Wolf’s office.Mr. Corbett, whom Gov. Wolf defeated in the 2014 gubernatorial election, announced Aug. 28 that HHS approved the state’s plan to launch Healthy PA, a program that would use federal Medicaid expansion funding to promote affordable care and create greater access to healthcare for the uninsured.
But there have been complications under Healthy PA, and those complications resulted in people failing to receive important treatment, confusion among recipients and special populations placed in wrong plans, according to Gov. Wolf’s statement.
The new Medicaid expansion plan is different from Healthy PA in that eligible adults will be able to be placed into one streamlined adult package, the statement reads.
“Today is the first step toward simplifying a complicated process and ensuring hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians have greater access to the health insurance they need,” Gov. Wolf said in the statement. “Our approach will alleviate confusion, remove unnecessary red tape, and streamline the system so that people can see a doctor when they are sick and health care professionals have more time to concentrate on providing quality care.”
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