Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s Healthy Pennsylvania program calls for the state to expand its Medicaid program on January 1 through a private insurance market option in which people choose private insurance plans through which to receive the Medicaid benefits for which they are newly eligible.
But Pennsylvania Governor-elect Tom Wolf wants to expand the state’s traditional Medicaid program and not employ the private insurance market coverage.
Governor Corbett will still be in office when his program is set to take effect on January 1, 2015.  Mr. Wolf will not take the oath of office until January 20.
The Philadelphia Inquirer takes a look at how Pennsylvania’s private insurance market option came about and what may happen next.  See its story here.