Pennsylvania’s adultBasic health care gives thousands in the state access to an affordable plan. People enrolled in adultBasic are at risk, though. Approximately 42,000 residents of the state who are on the plan could either become uninsured, or have to enroll in a program that is significantly more expensive.
State Sen. Jay Costa said the new plan being offered up “includes premiums as much as 400 percent higher than those offered by adultBasic and dramatically reduced benefits. In short, they will pay much more for much less coverage.”
The impasse is being created because the state’s five-year Blue Cross charitable funding toward adultBasic is set to expire. Lawmakers in the state are frantically trying to renegotiate the terms.
State Sen. Mike Stack, whose district in northeast Pennsylvania has the second highest number of adults enrolled in adultBasic, has also been lobbying for legislation to avert the crisis.
“I have 1,400 constituents who are asking themselves, ‘How will I afford health insurance?’” Stack said during a press conference earlier this month. His comments were posted on his official website. “Time is running out. The Legislature must act now. Forty thousand men and women are counting on us.”
State Sen. Jay Costa said the new plan being offered up “includes premiums as much as 400 percent higher than those offered by adultBasic and dramatically reduced benefits. In short, they will pay much more for much less coverage.”
The impasse is being created because the state’s five-year Blue Cross charitable funding toward adultBasic is set to expire. Lawmakers in the state are frantically trying to renegotiate the terms.
State Sen. Mike Stack, whose district in northeast Pennsylvania has the second highest number of adults enrolled in adultBasic, has also been lobbying for legislation to avert the crisis.
“I have 1,400 constituents who are asking themselves, ‘How will I afford health insurance?’” Stack said during a press conference earlier this month. His comments were posted on his official website. “Time is running out. The Legislature must act now. Forty thousand men and women are counting on us.”
