March 23rd, 2011

The Pittsburgh Post Gazette:

“Gov. Tom Corbett says the Medicaid expansion under the year-old federal health care law is unaffordable to Pennsylvania, and he is repeating a request for speedy consideration of lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of that law.

Mr. Corbett testified this morning at a U.S. House committee field hearing here, along with his insurance and welfare department secretaries, on the state’s fiscal and administrative challenges in beginning to implement the health care law’s provisions.

In his previous role as state attorney general, Mr. Corbett joined in a multistate lawsuit challenging the federal law. That suit and several other similar cases are working their way through the court system, while states are left to begin enacting portions of the law.

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