A Pennsylvania judge has concluded that the state violated its own constitution when it ended the adultBasic program without making other provisions to use tobacco settlement funds to help lower-income adults.
The Corbett administration ended adultBasic in 2011 and used money previously designated for that program to support Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program.  Commonwealth Court judge Dan Pelligrini declared the laws that ended the program unconstitutional and said the state must use the money for adultBasic or a similar program.
Learn more about the court decision, the circumstances surrounding the challenge to the end of adultBasic, and what might happen next in this York Daily Record article.