Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court has ruled that a lawsuit that seeks restoration of the state’s AdultBasic program may proceed.
The program, which served 41,000 low-income working adults who qualified neither for Medicare nor Medicaid, expired in 2011 and the resources previously expended on it, from the state’s proceeds from the national tobacco settlement, were directed elsewhere.
Read more about the court case and the court’s rationale for allowing the suit to continue in this Legal Intelligencer article published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.